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# License

PyScripter is Open Source Software  published under the [MIT  license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) 
and can be used for any purpose including commercial development.
  
Copyright (c) 2005-2024 Kiriakos Vlahos  
   
 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:   
  
**A) Copyright**  

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
 all copies or substantial portions of the Software.   

**B) Warranties**

PYSCRIPTER (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.   

**C) Source Code**

Everyone is allowed to use and change this code free for his/her own tasks and projects, as 
long as this header and its copyright text is intact. For changed versions of this code, which 
are publicly distributed the following additional conditions have to be fulfilled:
1. The header has to contain a comment on the change and the author of it.
2. A copy of the changed source has to be sent to the email pyscripter@gmail.com or to 
the then valid address of the author(s).  

The second condition aims at maintaining an up to date central version of the software. If 
this condition is not acceptable for confidential or legal reasons, everyone is free to derive 
components or to generate a diff file to our or other original sources.  

The Pyscripter project contains code from other open source projects (see [credits](credits)). These 
parts of the code are covered by the licenses of the respective projects.


