Family Historian Plugin Licence

Family Historian plugins typically contain a header which looks like this:


--[[
@Title:
@Type: Standard
@Author: Fred Bloggs
@Contributors: Jane Smith
@Version:
@Keywords:
@LastUpdated:
@Licence: This plugin is copyright (c) 2020 Fred Bloggs & contributors and is licensed under the MIT License
which is hereby incorporated by reference (see https://pluginstore.family-historian.co.uk/fh-plugin-licence)

@Description:
]]

Plugins of all kinds in the Family Historian Plugin Store, including language packs, are distributed under the terms of the MIT  License.  To be included in the Family Historian Plugin Store, all plugins must be licensed under the MIT License and the header must contain a “@Licence” clause substantially similar to the one shown above.  A ‘contributor’ is anyone listed as either ‘author’ or ‘contributor’ in the Plugin header.  Anyone who contributes any kind of modification to the plugin may add their name to the list of authors or contributors in the modified file. Their copyright extends to whatever portion or portions of the plugin they personally contributed.

The terms of the MIT license are given below.

 

MIT License

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

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.