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Software Licence Agreement

New Code

The copyright to new code written specifically for this book belongs to the publishers, Wiley Publishing, Inc. However, Wiley allows the distribution of the software via the Internet under terms that are outlined below.

Existing Code

Some code examples were written prior to the book and therefore the original copyright rests with the authors. The authors agree that this code is made available according to the principles of Creative Commons.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.

Derivative Works

Any code that is developed based on these examples must also be made available on terms that are no more restrictive than those that apply to the original code. In essence, the Creative Commons principles of Attribution (retaining the names of the original authors), No Commercial Use, and Share-Alike (allowing further derivative works) will apply. This is similar to the GNU General Public License (GPL).

General Terms

The code is available free of charge for non-commercial use.

The following is an extract of the Terms & Conditions of use from the Wrox web site:

" We try to make using the code as open as possible; however, for commercial reasons, we do have to assert a few simple Terms and Conditions. By downloading the code, you agree to the following:

ALL DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE AND FILES ARE DISTRIBUTED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND DOWNLOADING AND/OR USING THE SOFTWARE AND FILES IS AT THE USER'S SOLE RISK.