NXM License
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General License of NeXtMidas Software Packages
Copyright 1999-2025 Innovative Computer Engineering, Inc.
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Anyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
License document, but it may not be changed without the written
permission of Innovative Computer Engineering.
Introduction
NeXtMidas is a software product comprised of packages. The SYS package
defines the NeXtMidas framework. All other packages extend the framework
by providing additional functionality. The SYS/ICE/SPICE/IQ packages are
developed and maintained by Innovative Computer Engineering under IR&D funding.
This license is necessary to protect the investment and rights of Innovative
Computer Engineering and other contributors when NeXtMidas software is used,
modified, or distributed by parties other than Innovative Computer Engineering.
It is the intent of Innovative Computer Engineering that this software be made
available to others pursuant to the terms of this License. It is hoped and
expected that software contributions will be made in the future by multiple
companies and individuals. This license is intended to protect them by
requiring that their contributions be acknowledged and that any future
version of NeXtMidas using their contributions will be made available to
them and others on the same terms as the original.
In order to maintain an up-to-date version of NeXtMidas incorporating new
ideas, this License requires that any modifications or additions to the
NeXtMidas SYS/ICE packages be furnished to Innovative Computer Engineering
on the same terms as contained in this License.
This agreement does not necessarily apply to all packages that use the
NeXtMidas SYS/ICE packages as a framework (see Section 3). Each installed
package may have it's own Copyright and License restrictions as deemed
appropriate by the developer.
Specific Terms and Conditions
1. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a
notice placed by the copyright holder saying it is distributed under
the terms of the General License of NeXtMidas Software dated 1999.
The "Program", means NeXtMidas, and a "Work based on the Program" means any
derivative Work under copyright law: that is to say, a Work containing
the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications
and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is
included without limitation in the term modification.) Each licensee
is addressed as you.
This License permits only copying, running, distributing and modifying
the Program and Work based on the Program pursuant to the terms of this
License, and no other use or activity relating to the Program or Work
based on the Program is permitted.
2. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source
code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously
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3. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it,
thus forming a Work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such
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Credit:
This License was modeled on the GNU General Public License of the
Free Software Foundation. Significant modifications were necessary,
however, to fit our particular circumstances.
