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Java Service Wrapper License

Java Service Wrapper License

Java Service Wrapper

The following license covers all versions the Java Service Wrapper starting with version 3.0.0. See the Silver Egg Technology license for prior versions. Please refer to the license history for a full explanation of the licensing history of the Java Service Wrapper.

Applications which are distributed with the Wrapper must include the license in a file called license-wrapper.txt. The file should be located in a location that is obvious to the user. Furthermore, the Wrapper may not be modified in a way which suppresses the copyright banner displayed on startup.

    Copyright (c) 1999, 2006 Tanuki Software, Inc.

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
    obtaining a copy of the Java Service Wrapper 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, sub-license,
    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
    NON-INFRINGEMENT. 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.

    Portions of the Software have been derived from source code
    developed by Silver Egg Technology under the following license:

    BEGIN Silver Egg Techology License -----------------------------------

        Copyright (c) 2001 Silver Egg Technology

        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, sub-license, 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
        NON-INFRINGEMENT. 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.

    END Silver Egg Techology License -------------------------------------

License History

The beginnings of the Java Service Wrapper were originally developed by Leif Mortenson starting in early 1999 as a personal tool for private development projects. At this point it was completely closed source, existing only in a dark corner of a hard drive, as a small Windows-only tool that could be used to install a Java application as an NT service.

Leif joined an internet startup, Silver Egg Technology, in October of 1999. In early 2000, Leif brought the basics of what was to become the Wrapper in to work as it was a ready made to tool to solve the problem of being able to install Silver Egg's primary product as an NT service. Together with Ryan Shaw, another Silver Egg employee, significant improvements were made to the Wrapper over the following months as features such as error recovery and Linux support were added.

In November of 2001, Silver Egg decided to open the Wrapper up as an open source project as a way to give something back to the community. As the majority of development to date had been contributed by Silver Egg, the Java Service Wrapper was released under Silver Egg copyright using a the generous MIT license. This initial release was version 2.2.0.

Leif and Ryan continued to develop the Wrapper mainly on personal time until they both left the company in April of 2002. At this point the Java Service Wrapper was at version 2.2.6

After leaving Silver Egg, Ryan has continued to provide some support for development. However the majority of development from this point was done by Leif, along with contributions from the growing Java Service Wrapper community.

Development of the Java Service Wrapper continued under the Silver Egg license until January 2003, and version 2.2.9. At that point, to reflect the efforts that have gone into the development of the Wrapper, the source code was branched and sub-licensed to Tanuki Software, owned by Leif Mortenson, prior to releasing version 3.0.0.

Unfortunately the first version of the Tanuki Software license, while also being an MIT license, was incomplete in that it did not include all required references to the original Silver Egg license. The license has since been updated to include all required copyright information. However, versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.5 were all released with the incomplete license. If you have in your possession a copy of such a license, please replace it with the complete Tanuki Software license at the top of this page.

by Leif Mortenson

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