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3  License

syn is subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this project except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

Software distributed under the License is distributed on an as is basis, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License.

Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), in which case the provisions of the GPL are applicable instead of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only under the terms of the GPL and not to allow others to use your version of this file under the MPL, indicate your decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice and other provisions required by the GPL. If you do not delete the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under either the MPL or the GPL.

3.1  At a glance

You can do anything with it, even commercial things, but when you make changes to the source you must publish the modified source, or a Patch file to reproduce your modifications. It is not necessary to publish the source of the entire project, the MPL is not infectious like e.g. the GPL. See Appendix C for the complete text.

3.2  Manual

the source of the manual is released under the GNU Free Documentation License (the "FDL") Version 1.1, see Appendix D for the entire text. You can download the source of this manual either via CVS, subdirectory "manual", or you can download the Source distribution from the download page.


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