8   Legal Stuff

Distribution

Please distribute the unmodified DropDMG-2.8.5.dmg file on the Web, LANs, compilation CD-ROMs, etc. You may not charge for it (beyond a reasonable cost for media) or distribute the contents of the disk image file in isolation. You may not distribute your serial number.

Limited Warranty

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 noninfringement. 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.

License

A license for DropDMG is good for one person or one computer. You may install it on one Mac, and everyone sharing that Mac may use it (on that Mac). Alternatively, you may install it and use it on multiple Macs (e.g. your desktop Mac and your laptop); then you (and no one else) may use it on any of those Macs. For multiple users on multiple Macs, you should purchase multiple licenses.

Copyright and Trademarks

DropDMG and this manual are copyright © 2002–2008 by C-Command Software. All rights reserved.

DropDMG is a trademark of C-Command Software. Mac is a registered trademark of Apple Computer. All other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.

Components

The following open-source components are used in DropDMG:

• Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the University of Cambridge, England.

• Core Foundation is available under the terms of the Apple Public Source License.

• Growl is Copyright © The Growl Project, 2004-2007 All rights reserved.

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  3. Neither the name of Growl nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

• Thanks to Allan Odgaard for some code snippets that are used in the Software Update installer.