NICE Licence added, an anti-copyleft permissive licence · Jamedjo/git-hunk@240ac0f

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NICE Licence

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(NICE Is Copycentral Enforced)

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Copyright (c) 2026 James Edwards-Jones

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge and irrevocably, to any person obtaining a copy of this

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software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,

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including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,

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and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so.

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The copyright holder, and each contributor by contributing, also grant each such person a perpetual,

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irrevocable, royalty-free patent licence to deal in the Software as permitted above, under any of their

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patent claims necessarily infringed by their contributions, alone or in combination with the Software.

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These permissions are granted in consideration of, and subject to, the following conditions:

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1. The above copyright notice and this licence text shall be included in all copies or substantial

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portions of the Software.

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2. No permission is granted to distribute, sublicense, or otherwise make available the Software, or

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any work containing or derived from it, subject, or purportedly subject, to any licence condition that

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requires the source code of the Software, in whole or in part, to be made available.

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT

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LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. TO THE EXTENT

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PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER

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IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE

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USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.