Developer's Agreement
From Anphillia
Notice
By posting a code segment or tip and/or idea regarding the development or implementation of a code call/function/script/addition on the Anphillia forums (http://www.anphillia.net/forum and all subsequent pages and/or portions of the anphillia.net domain) and/or by submitting a code portion openly on the forums and/or in an enclosed PM via the http://www.anphillia.net/phpbb private messaging system to any member of the Anphillia staff (or by sending it to their public and/or private e-mail address obtained via the http://www.anphillia.net/forum forums) or by sending in a developed area, item, idea, creature, script, encounter, merchant, and any other applicable piece that could otherwise be claimed as Intellectual Property for implementation into the Anphillia module by the same means HEREBY (henceforth and forever more) means that you agree to the following terms and conditions of a General MIT Open Software License.
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2005,2006, 2007 Anphillia Team
I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
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, sub-license, 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.
Summary
This means that if you willingly and openly provide your advice/opinion or aid on a subject dealing with the development of Anphillia (Posting or submitting a script, code segment, or idea regarding any of the above or applicable piece of intellectual property) that you do so without seeking to retain your rights to that piece of whatever it is you submit.
All the developers currently on staff at Anphillia have agreed unconditionally to this same license and it is, in truth, in the best interest of Anphillia.
Legal mumbo-jumbo aside, it simply means that if you offer your expertise, you cannot turn around and claim it as your intellectual property under any circumstances. Thereby meaning, if you submit something in a PM to a staff member, or on the feedback or general discussion forums, you are knowingly and willingly GIVING this to the Anphillia community. Which is really the only reason anyone would post anything like that in the first place, this just protects us in the future Laughing.
If you have a problem with these terms, I recommend not responding to feedback forums where you feel your submission may be integrated into the module.
Ignorance of THIS announcement does not excuse you from its applicability, and is hereby to be considered in the Terms/Usage agreement for these forums.
This is also subject to moderate tweakage and change from time to time - We'll give a bump if that happens, but said moderate tweakage and change does not nullify the original agreement when posting.
