﻿The JsonCpp library's source code, including accompanying documentation, tests
and demonstration applications, are licensed under the following conditions...

The author (Baptiste Lepilleur) explicitly disclaims copyright in all
jurisdictions which recognize such a disclaimer. In such jurisdictions, this
software is released into the Public Domain.

In jurisdictions which do not recognize Public Domain property (e.g. Germany as
of 2010), this software is Copyright (c) 2007-2010 by Baptiste Lepilleur, and is
released under the terms of the MIT License (see below).

In jurisdictions which recognize Public Domain property, the user of this
software may choose to accept it either as 1) Public Domain, 2) under the
conditions of the MIT License (see below), or 3) under the terms of dual Public
Domain/MIT License conditions described here, as they choose.

The MIT License is about as close to Public Domain as a license can get, and is
described in clear, concise terms at:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
   
The full text of the MIT License follows:

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Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur

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
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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The MIT license is compatible with both the GPL and commercial software,
affording one all of the rights of Public Domain with the minor nuisance of
being required to keep the above copyright notice and license text in the source
code. Note also that by accepting the Public Domain "license" you can re-license
your copy using whatever license you like.
