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Update terms of use to agree with current NIST language
guyer committed Nov 24, 2018
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Terms of Use
------------

This software was developed by employees of the `National Institute
of Standards and Technology`_, an agency of the Federal Government.
Pursuant to `title 17 section 105`_ of the United States Code,
works of NIST employees are not not subject to copyright
protection, and this software is in the public domain. FiPy is an experimental
system. NIST_ assumes no responsibility whatsoever for its use by
other parties, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about
its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic. We would
appreciate acknowledgement if the software is used.
This software was developed by employees of the `National Institute of
Standards and Technology`_ (NIST_), an agency of the Federal Government and
is being made available as a public service. Pursuant to `title 17 United
States Code Section 105`_, works of NIST_ employees are not subject to
copyright protection in the United States. This software may be subject to
foreign copyright. Permission in the United States and in foreign
countries, to the extent that NIST_ may hold copyright, to use, copy,
modify, create derivative works, and distribute this software and its
documentation without fee is hereby granted on a non-exclusive basis,
provided that this notice and disclaimer of warranty appears in all copies.

To the extent that NIST_ may hold copyright in countries other than the
United States, you are hereby granted the non-exclusive irrevocable
and unconditional right to print, publish, prepare derivative works and
distribute this software, in any medium, or authorize others to do so
on your behalf, on a royalty-free basis throughout the world.

You may improve, modify, and create derivative works of the software or any
portion of the software, and you may copy and distribute such modifications
or works. Modified works should carry a notice stating that you changed
the software and should note the date and nature of any such change. Please
explicitly acknowledge the National Institute of Standards and Technology
as the original source, by linking back to `this repository`_ or
`the website`_.

This software can be redistributed and/or modified freely provided that any
derivative works bear some notice that they are derived from it, and any
modified versions bear some notice that they have been modified.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY
WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL CONFORM TO SPECIFICATIONS, ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND
FREEDOM FROM INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE DOCUMENTATION WILL
CONFORM TO THE SOFTWARE, OR ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR
FREE. IN NO EVENT SHALL NIST BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT
OF, RESULTING FROM, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER OR
NOT BASED UPON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, WHETHER OR NOT
INJURY WAS SUSTAINED BY PERSONS OR PROPERTY OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR
NOT LOSS WAS SUSTAINED FROM, OR AROSE OUT OF THE RESULTS OF, OR USE OF, THE
SOFTWARE OR SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER.

.. _National Institute of Standards and Technology: http://www.nist.gov/
.. _NIST: http://www.nist.gov/
.. _the website: https://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy
.. _this repository: https://github.com/usnistgov/fipy
.. _title 17 section 105: http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t17t20+9+0++
.. _title 17 United States Code Section 105: http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t17t20+9+0++
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Link is broken. Please substitute
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105

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... or, use the Government Publishing Office (requires specifying the year)
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2017-title17/html/USCODE-2017-title17-chap1-sec105.htm

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sigh That's not what "tkphd approved these changes 2 days ago" means.