MS4W Licensing¶

MS4W General¶

In general MS4W is licensed under an MIT/X style license with the following terms:

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.

Component Licensing¶

MS4W contains several component packages that are provided under their own licensing terms.

MapServer¶

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 of this Software or works derived from this 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.

GDAL¶

Refer to the GDAL license found at /ms4w/gdaldata/LICENSE-GDAL.txt

PROJ¶

Refer to the PROJ license found at /ms4w/tools/proj/LICENSE-PROJ.txt

MrSID¶

FreeType¶

Apache¶

Refer to the Apache license found at /ms4w/Apache/LICENSE-Apache.txt

PHP¶

Refer to the PHP license found at /ms4w/Apache/php/LICENSE-PHP.txt

Bitstream Vera Fonts¶

Refer to the Bitstream license found at /ms4w/apps/etc/fonts-license.txt

Python¶

Refer to the Python license found at /ms4w/Python/LICENSE-Python.txt