Copyright Notices

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Site Content

Unless otherwise stated within the page, all site content (what you actually see on a page) is original and copyright (c) 2001-2009 by Alexander Dale Matthews, II. All rights are reserved. Except for brief quotations for the purpose of review or as provided explicitly by license, no reproduction of this site's content shall be made in any form without prior express written consent from the author. Permission is granted to the viewer to print or retain an electronic copy of site content for personal use only, provided that no distribution of the material is made. Standard academic methods for citation and bibliographic reference are required for use of this site as a resource in scholastic, journalistic, and other similar research-related purposes and pursuits.

General Licensing Information

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Downloadable Software, Scripts, and Sourcecode

Each of these items is distributed with license and copyright information. Please read this first to determine what the applicable terms are. If after reading it, however, you still have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Overall, I have two main interests in copyrighting my code and software. First, I want to ensure that people who receive it from persons other than myself obtain it under exactly the same conditions which I issued it. For example, if you are able to get it for free, then so should the people you pass it on to. Second, I want to retain control over my code. By copyrighting it, I prevent a software company from snapping it up, throwing restrictive copyrights of their own on it, and locking me out of the ability to use my own source and materials in whatever manner I see fit.

In general, most (not all) of my code and software bear copyrights and licenses similar to the GPL, if not actually being GPL themselves. Someone who is considering their use, however, must not automatically assume that the material which they possess is GPL. It may well be, but until you actually read the copyright and license matter that is distributed with it, such an assumption is foolhardy at best and unethical at worst (and, if it turns out to be a false assumption, anything you've done with the material could well be illegal).

I'm not trying to be a hardass here, folks. I've given my reasons for copyrighting stuff in the paragraphs above. The only reason I'm stating anything "aggressively" (in case that's the impression I leave) is that in order for intellectual and material copyrights to be worth anything, they must be defended. So please, read and abide by the information; it'll save us all a lot of headaches in the long run.

All that said, I am open to negotiating additional licenses to any and all who approach me. If you've got something in mind that you think may need a license beyond that issued in the distribution, especially if you'd like to do something with my code that'd result in a commercial or shareware product, then let's talk. I'm in no way unreasonable, and I'm not going to gouge huge fees out of you, particularly if only a small portion of the overall code is mine (heck, in most of those situations, a simple acknowledgement in the credits and a free copy of your product is usually enough--but ask to be sure!).