NETHACK GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

(Copyright 1989 M. Stephenson)

(Based on the BISON general public license, copyright 1988 Richard
M. Stallman)

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license, but changing it is not allowed. You can also use this wording
to make the terms for other programs.

The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the mercy
of those companies. By contrast, our general public license is intended
to give everyone the right to share NetHack. To make sure that you
get the rights we want you to have, we need to make restrictions that
forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the
rights. Hence this license agreement.

Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give away
copies of NetHack, that you receive source code or else can get it if
you want it, that you can change NetHack or use pieces of it in new free
programs, and that you know you can do these things.

To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to
deprive anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute
copies of NetHack, you must give the recipients all the rights that you
have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source
code. And you must tell them their rights.

Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone finds
out that there is no warranty for NetHack. If NetHack is modified by
someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what
they have is not what we distributed.

Therefore we (Mike Stephenson and other holders of NetHack copyrights)
make the following terms which say what you must do to be allowed to
distribute or change NetHack.

COPYING POLICIES

   1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of NetHack source
   code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you keep intact
   the notices on all files that refer to copyrights, to this License
   Agreement, and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other
   recipients of the NetHack program a copy of this License Agreement
   along with the program.

   2. You may modify your copy or copies of NetHack or any portion of
   it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of
   Paragraph 1 above (including distributing this License Agreement),
   provided that you also do the following:

      a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
      that you changed the files and the date of any change; and

      b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
      that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of NetHack or
      any part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to all third parties
      on terms identical to those contained in this License Agreement
      (except that you may choose to grant more extensive warranty
      protection to some or all third parties, at your option)

      c) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
      transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty
      protection in exchange for a fee.

   3. You may copy and distribute NetHack (or a portion or derivative
   of it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under
   the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one
   of the following:

      a) accompany it with the complete machine-readable source code,
      which must be distributed under the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2
      above; or,

      b) accompany it with full information as to how to obtain
      the complete machine-readable source code from an appropriate
      archive site. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial
      distribution.)

   For these purposes, complete source code means either the full source
   distribution as originally released over Usenet or updated copies
   of the files in this distribution used to create the object code
   or executable.

   4. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer NetHack except
   as expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt
   otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer NetHack is
   void and your rights to use the program under this License agreement
   shall be automatically terminated. However, parties who have received
   computer software programs from you with this License Agreement will
   not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in
   full compliance.

Stated plainly: You are permitted to modify NetHack, or otherwise use
parts of NetHack, provided that you comply with the conditions specified
above; in particular, your modified NetHack or program containing parts
of NetHack must remain freely available as provided in this License
Agreement. In other words, go ahead and share NetHack, but don't try to
stop anyone else from sharing it farther.
