(c) Copyright 1993 Kevin Lentin, Darren Platt, Andrew Davison.

Disclaimer:

This package comes without warranty. If you screw up using it, and lose
for example millions of dollars , then we are very sorry but not
responsible for the ensuing mess. If it screws up due to the way we
wrote it and again (for example) you lose millions of dollars, then we
are very sorry, hope you post a bug report, but we are not
responsible.

Place-To-Send-Bugs: darrenp@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au

You may distribute this software in its entirety, provided the
following conditions are met:

    * full source code is provided including this copyright

    * there is no charge for the software itself (there may be
      a minimal charge for the copying or distribution effort)

    * this copyright notice is not modified or removed from any
      source file


Ok - now for the tricky part - charging for software which incorporates any
part of the DiamondBase package. We are a little undecided on this point
and would like some feedback on what people want to do with it first. It
personally strikes us as grossly unfair that someone could potentially make
obscene quantities of money out of our hard work whilst we make nothing except
a little kudos (bug levels permitting).

So ... if you would like to make commercial use of DiamondBase - or buy the
rights to it - we would love to discuss this with you. We are unlikely to
exact enormous demands, but would like some return on our investment.
The bottom line is

** COMMERCIAL USE OF THIS SOFTWARE REQUIRES THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF
                          THE AUTHORS                                  **

That notwithstanding, we would like DiamondBase to become a popular
choice for small database implementations - and so we may well end up
putting the GNU Public License on it to encourage usage. We will reserve
our decision pending feedback however - we are essentially nice people who
don't want to be exploited.
