# Freecell Solver Copyright and Licensing Information

Relax, this is not GPL software, but rather it is distributed under the MIT/X11 License ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License ).

What this means is that the code and binaries here can be linked against anything, converted to any different license, freely used and distributed, and anything else without any restrictions whatsoever. No Strings Attached!<tm>

— Shlomi Fish

Here is the license text (or "legalese") for most of the code:

    Copyright (c) 2000 Shlomi Fish

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
    obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
    files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
    restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
    copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
    copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
    Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
    conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
    included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
    EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
    OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
    NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
    HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
    WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
    FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
    OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

`kaz_tree.c` and `kaz_tree.h` are distributed under the following 3-clause BSD license:

    Copyright 2009
    Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@gmail.com>
    Vancouver, Canada
    All rights reserved.

    BSD License:

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
    are met:

      1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
         notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
      2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
         notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
         the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
         distribution.
      3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
         products derived from this software without specific prior
         written permission.

    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
    IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
    WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.