At 08:20 23/07/2002, James S. Martin wrote:

Can someone tell me where I can find the license for fractint? I know that it's "freeware", but I wanted to exact terms.

I'm not sure if there's a precise license - it would be distributed with Fractint if it was - but from the docs: Fractint is freeware. The copyright is retained by the Stone Soup Group. Fractint may be freely copied and distributed in unmodified form but may not be sold. (A nominal distribution fee may be charged for media and handling by freeware and shareware distributors.) Fractint may be used personally or in a business - if you can do your job better by using Fractint, or using images from it, that's great! It may not be given away with commercial products without explicit permission from the Stone Soup Group. There is no warranty of Fractint's suitability for any purpose, nor any acceptance of liability, express or implied. ********************************************************************** * Contribution policy: Don't want money. Got money. Want admiration. * **********************************************************************

James asked:

Can someone tell me where I can find the license for fractint? I know that it's "freeware", but I wanted to exact terms.

Another message qutes the license. The license is old and probably not very effective from a legal point of view, and doesn't qualify as an official open source license. We would love to change to a newer license such as GPL, but this would be a big effort, because we would have to track down everyone who ever contributed. If fractint/xfractint manages to continue into the future, the license could probably be changed when there is a major rewrite of the code. Tim