Hi everyone,
I'm using a json parser in my projects, which has a nice copyright section, and I have two questions regarding those. (Of course I know I won't get official, legal advice here, but maybe someone already had to deal with a same copyright format.)
The copyright:
/*
* Copyright (c) 2012 Calvin Rien
*
* Based on the JSON parser by Patrick van Bergen
*
http://techblog.procurios.nl/k/618/news/view/14605/14863/How-do-I-write-my-own-parser-for-JSON.html *
* Simplified it so that it doesn't throw exceptions
* and can be used in Unity iPhone with maximum code stripping.
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
* a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
* "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
* without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
* distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
* permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
* the following conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
* included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
* EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
* MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
* IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
* CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
* TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
* SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/
Now my questions:
- If I want to use this in a commercial game, without code release, is it possible?
- If I want to use it in a commercial tool, with full code release, is the rest of my code protected by the standard copyright laws, or do this copyright have to apply to my complete tool? Or can I just have this particular files (and my modifications in it) protected by this precise copyright, and the rest of the code (my code) protected by standard ownership copyright?
Developer
