Licence

Contributors

Original code contributions to RAIDmap (i.e. those not available as part of the software on which it is based) were made by:

• Uday Thangarajah

• Alex Ball, UKOLN, University of Bath

Contributions in the form of project management, architectural design, functional specification, user testing and documentation were made by:

• Alex Ball, UKOLN

• Mansur Darlington, IdMRC, University of Bath

• Chris McMahon, IdMRC, University of Bath

• Uday Thangarajah

Copyright

© Copyright 2012 University of Bath.

RAIDmap is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

The full text of the LGPL version 3 may be consulted online: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html.

The full text of the GPL version 3 may be consulted online: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.

This version of RAIDmap is based on version 1.5.2 of Compendium, which is © Copyright 2009 Verizon Communications USA and The Open University UK, and distributed under the LGPL version 3. For more information, see http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/download/download.htm.

Additionally, the disclaimer for Compendium reads as follows:

‘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.’

RAIDmap also incorporates the following software:

1. Metadata Extractor, version 3.4, is © Copyright 2010 The National Library of New Zealand, and distributed under the Apache Licence, version 2. For more information, see http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/

2. Derby Database, version 10.0, is © Copyright 2004-2011 The Apache Software Foundation, and distributed under the Apache Licence, version 2. For more information, see http://db.apache.org/derby/

Code written for RAIDmap within the Java package uk.ac.bath.raidmap.meta and its subpackages, and within the source folder metadata-extractor\METADATA_BASE\harvested\raidmap, is also distributed under the Apache Licence, version 2.

The full text of the Apache Licence, version 2 may be consulted online: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

More details about the copyright and licensing of the above two pieces of software may be found within their respective source code directories.