The product is not 100% Open source, purely from the fact that I have a donate link within the product which would be the first thing someone would change if it was open source. HomeDev obtains a few dollars from people who the product has helped. So it is really donate-ware.
It is a click-wrapped license, and the product is offered 100% free. The license that appears in the installer, is based upon the MIT license. Essentially the software is offered 100 for free but with no warranty that the product is fit for purpose. It is caveat empotor.
Or to put it another way, its 100% free to use, but I don't want to give you my code, (due to the donate link), and HomeDev isnot liable for any losses that may occur if the software does something wrong so please don't sue me.
I realise that SourceForge is generally for OSS, but I wanted to give this software to people for free and needed a platform to do so, and my personal bandwith cap was being blown out every month due to bots, and lots of downloads.
So, no the code is not available as such, but I describe the algorithm used on my website and provide a link in the Info acknowledements to the basis for the engine that I have build in c#, which is a vb script file, I found on raymond.cc.
Hope this helps.
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The license can be viewed by running the installer, about step 2 or 3 of the installation wizard. You can Ctrl-A, Ctr-C Ctrl-V if you wish to capture it. You can read the license without having to install the product, just click cancel on that step.
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Thanks for this handy utility.
Most things on SourceForge are open source licenses. Is PatchCleaner being offered as OSS? Could you identify the license? Is the code available?
Thanks.
Hi,
The product is not 100% Open source, purely from the fact that I have a donate link within the product which would be the first thing someone would change if it was open source. HomeDev obtains a few dollars from people who the product has helped. So it is really donate-ware.
It is a click-wrapped license, and the product is offered 100% free. The license that appears in the installer, is based upon the MIT license. Essentially the software is offered 100 for free but with no warranty that the product is fit for purpose. It is caveat empotor.
Or to put it another way, its 100% free to use, but I don't want to give you my code, (due to the donate link), and HomeDev isnot liable for any losses that may occur if the software does something wrong so please don't sue me.
I realise that SourceForge is generally for OSS, but I wanted to give this software to people for free and needed a platform to do so, and my personal bandwith cap was being blown out every month due to bots, and lots of downloads.
So, no the code is not available as such, but I describe the algorithm used on my website and provide a link in the Info acknowledements to the basis for the engine that I have build in c#, which is a vb script file, I found on raymond.cc.
Hope this helps.
I understand. I was asking more to spur a posting of the license than for the code to be released.
The license can be viewed by running the installer, about step 2 or 3 of the installation wizard. You can Ctrl-A, Ctr-C Ctrl-V if you wish to capture it. You can read the license without having to install the product, just click cancel on that step.