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                                   README

                      OPEN MICROSCOPY ENVIRONMENT (OME)
                              
                                 S H O O L A
                                 
                                    Legal







  Preamble
  --------
  
  Within this document, the term 'third-party software' shall refer to the set 
  of all the files which are contained in the Shoola CVS module and which are 
  listed in each 'Artifacts' entry within the 'Third-Party Software Licenses' 
  section of this document.  The term 'Shoola' or, equivalently, 'our software'
  shall refer to any other file contained in the Shoola CVS module.
  
  
  
  Purpose
  -------
  
  This document states which licenses apply to which files in the Shoola CVS
  module.  It also gives credit to other projects and developers that provided
  us with their valuable software.
  
  
  
  OME-Shoola License
  ------------------
  
  Our software is licensed under the terms of the Lesser General Public License
  (LGPL), a copy of which may be found in the 'lgpl.txt' file within this
  directory.
  
  
  
  Third-Party Software Licenses
  -----------------------------
  
  We are in debt with many open-source projects for providing us with valuable
  artifacts, ranging from application libraries to graphics files.  This section
  lists all the third-party software that is used by Shoola.  Software artifacts
  are grouped according to the project of provenience and using the following 
  format:
  
  Project: The name of the project the artifacts belong to and a brief 
                (optional) description.
  Web Site: The project's Web site address.
  Artifacts: The files our software makes use of.  The wildcard character * can
                be appended to a sequence of characters S denoting a file name.  
                This shall mean 'all the files whose name starts with S'.  For example, 
                'ant-*' means all the files whose name starts with 'ant-'.
                Unless otherwise specified, directory pathnames are given relative to 
                the root of the Shoola SVN module.
  License: The type of license that applies to the files listed in 'Artifacts'.
  License File: The file, within this directory, that contains the license.
  
  Follows the list.
  

  Project: The Apache Ant Project.  Ant is a Java-based build tool.  It supports
                the build system in Shoola.
  Web Site: http://ant.apache.org/
  Artifacts: The ant-*, junit-frames.xsl, and junit-noframes.xsl files under 
                build/tools/
  License: Apache License, Version 2.0
  License File: apache-v2.0.txt
  
  Project: The Formatting Objects Processor (FOP).  FOP is a print formatter 
                driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO).  It provides our build system
                with pdf generation capabilities.
  Web Site: http://xml.apache.org/fop/
  Artifacts: The fop-* file under build/tools/
  License: Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  License File: apache-v1.1.txt
  
  Project: The Apache Avalon Framework.  We don't use this software directly,
                but it is required by the FOP library.
  Web Site: http://avalon.apache.org/
  Artifacts: The avalon-* file under build/tools/
  License: Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  License File: apache-v1.1.txt
  
  Project: The Apache Batik SVG Toolkit.  We don't use this software directly,
                but it is required by the FOP library.
  Web Site: http://xml.apache.org/batik/
  Artifacts: The batik.jar file under build/tools/
  License: Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  License File: apache-v1.1.txt
  
  Project: The Bean Scripting Framework (BSF).  It provides scripting language 
                support within Java applications.  We use it to add scripting 
                capabilities to Ant.
  Web Site: http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/
  Artifacts: The bsf-* file under build/tools/
  License: Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  License File: apache-v1.1.txt
  
  Project: The Rhino JavaScript Engine.  It provides JavaScript support to
                the BSF library.
  Web Site: http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
  Artifacts: The rhino-* file under build/tools/
  License: Netscape Public License (NPL), Version 1.1
  License File: npl-1_1.txt
  
  Project: The Jar Bundler Ant Task.  It lets Ant create Mac OS X application 
                bundles.
  Web Site: http://www.loomcom.com/jarbundler/
  Artifacts: The jarbundler-* file under build/tools/
  License: General Public License (GPL), Version 2
  License File: gpl.txt
  
  Project: The Xalan-Java Project.  An XSLT processor which is used by Ant.
  Web Site: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/
  Artifacts: The xalan-* file under build/tools/
  License: Apache License, Version 2.0
  License File: apache-v2.0.txt
  
  Project: The Xerces2 Java Parser.  An XML parser which is used by Ant.
  Web Site: http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/
  Artifacts: The xerces-* file under build/tools/
  License: Apache Software License, Version 1.1
  License File: apache-v1.1.txt
  
  Project: The JUnit Testing Framework.  A framework for unit-testing.  All our
                regression tests make use of this framework in a way or another.
  Web Site: http://www.junit.org/
  Artifacts: The junit-* files under build/tools/ and under LIB/test/
  License: Common Public License (CPL) v1.0
  License File: cpl-v10.html
  
  Project: The Log4j Project.  The logging framework used by Shoola.
  Web Site: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/
  Artifacts: The log4j-* file under LIB/
  License: Apache License, Version 2.0
  License File: apache-v2.0.txt
  
  Project: The Eclipse project.  We're using a few of their icons.
  Web Site: http://www.eclipse.org/
  Artifacts: All the eclipse_* graphics files contained the Shoola CVS module.
  License: Common Public License (CPL) v1.0
  License File: cpl-v10.html
  
  Project: Ximian.  We're using a few of their icons that they designed for
                Open Office.
  Web Site: http://www.novell.com/linux/ximian.html
  Artifacts: All the openOffice_* graphics files contained the Shoola CVS 
                module.
  License: Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
  License File: lgpl.txt
  
  Project: The Nuvola icon theme.  It provides most of the icons in Shoola.
  Web Site: http://www.icon-king.com/
  Artifacts: All the nuvola_* graphics files contained the Shoola CVS module.
  License: Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
  License File: lgpl.txt

  Project: The Hibernate project. An object/relational persistence and query 
           service for Java. We use it to retrieve data using OMERO.
  Web Site: www.hibernate.org
  Artifacts: The hiberbate-* file under LIB/
  License:  Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
  License File: lgpl.txt
  
  Project: The JBOSS project.  A J2EE based application server
  Web Site: www.jboss.org
  Artifacts: The jboss-* files under LIB/
  License: Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
  License File: lgpl.txt
  
  Project: The Spring project.
  Web Site: www.springframework.org
  Artifacts: The spring-* file under LIB/
  License: Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
  License File: lgpl.txt