Copyright and License

PRADO is released under the terms of the revised BSD license.

Original PRADO Work

All original work by PRADO developers to be included in the PRADO release must follow the BSD license. Code not following this license term will not be accepted by the PRADO project.

Note, the BSD license indicates that the copyright holder of the work is The PRADO Group. Authors earn credits by leaving the author information in the relevant code. For example, the TControl class contains the following copyright and license information in its comments:

 
/**
 * TControl, ... class file
 *
 * @author Qiang Xue <qiang.xue@gmail.com>
 * @link http://www.pradosoft.com/
 * @copyright Copyright &copy; 2006 The PRADO Group
 * @license http://www.pradosoft.com/license/
 * @version $Revision: $  $Date: $
 * @package System.Web.UI
 */

Third-Party Work

Be extremely careful about the license terms when including third-party work into PRADO. DO NOT INCLUDE WORK WHOSE LICENSE IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE BSD LICENSE.

As a general guidance, if a third-party work is to be included in PRADO, please update the file 3rdParty/readme.html and state very clearly in the relevant code with the following information:

• where it comes from,
• who is the author,
• who is the copyright holder,
• and what is the license term.

THE PERSON WHO DOES NOT FOLLOW THIS GUIDANCE SHALL ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY CAUSED BY VIOLATING THE THIRD-PARTY LICENSE.