Copyright notice

TWF is free and non-proprietary. It can be used for both academic and commercial purposes at absolutely no cost. There are no royalties or GNU-like "copyleft" restrictions. TWF (probably) qualifies as Open Source software. Nevertheless, TWF is not in the public domain and TeCGraf keeps its copyright.

If you use TWF, please give us credit but we would appreciate not receiving lengthy legal documents to sign.

The legal details are below.


Copyright © 1994-2000 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose, including commercial applications, subject to the following conditions:

The authors specifically disclaim any warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The software provided hereunder is on an "as is" basis, and the authors have no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates, enhancements, or modifications. In no event shall TeCGraf, PUC-Rio, or the authors be held liable to any party for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of this software and its documentation.

The TWF file format language and this implementation have been entirely designed and written by Marcelo Gattass, Carla Cristina Fonseca Ferreira, Alexandre Sieira Vilar, Mark Stroetzel Glasberg. at TeCGraf, PUC-Rio.

This implementation contains no third-party code.


Last update: Thu Aug 14 by mark.