Sputnik: License

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  Sputnik is free software.  It is distributed under permissive MIT/X license.  It can be used for both academic and commercial purposes at
  absolutely no cost.  It is compatible with GPL.
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There are no GPL-like "copyleft" restrictions, but the license is compatible with GPL.
(You can incorporate Sputnik code into GPL code).
Sputnik qualifies as Open Source software.

The legal details are below.

The spirit of the license is that you are free to use Sputnik for any purpose at no cost
without having to ask us. If you want to distributed a substantial part of it
(by itself or as a part of your product) you should give us credit by including
the appropriate copyright notice somewhere in your product or its documentation.

Most of Sputnik is copyright of Yuri Takhteyev.  Certain parts are copyright of other people.
(See [[Credits]] for details.)

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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.

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