License

StarStaX License Agreement

PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING STARSTAX. BY USING STARSTAX, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, DO NOT USE STARSTAX.

StarStaX is copyright by Markus Enzweiler and provided as freeware. It is free to download and free to use for any purpose, including commercial projects, but is not open source.

Use StarStaX at your own risk. The author of this software, Markus Enzweiler, makes no claims as to the fitness of this software. It is provided “as is” without express or implied warranty. Prohibited uses include modifying the software. Any modified or merged portion of the software is subject to this agreement, reverse-engineering, disassemble, decompile, or make any attempt to discover the source code to the software, create derivative works based on the software, remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice or other proprietary rights related to the software or package including manuals is forbidden. You may not rent, lease, lend, redistribute or sublicense the software without written consent from the author. Any feedback you provide regarding the software shall be deemed to be non-confidential. The author shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

By using this software you also agree to the Privacy Policy.

Compliance with Qt LGPL License

StarStaX uses the Qt Toolkit under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 and the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (both jointly “LGPL”). The Qt Toolkit is copyright by The Qt Company and/or its subsidiary(-ies) and other contributors.

In order to be in compliance with LGPL, each recipient of the software must receive the full text of the LGPL licenses. StarStaX complies with this requirement by providing the full text of the LGPL licenses in the downloadable software package. In addition, the LGPL licenses can also be viewed at LGPL version 2.1 and LGPL version 3.

Qt includes a variety of additional third party software. The author did not modify any of those component software items, and only uses some of them in the manner that they are provided by The Qt Company. The itemization and license terms for each additional third party software can be found at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/licenses-used-in-qt.html.

StarStaX dynamically links to the unmodified Qt libraries which are provided by the Qt Project as shared libraries in binary format. Any user can replace the particular version of unmodified Qt libraries that is provided in the StarStaX software package with another version. To do so, the Qt toolkit can be downloaded at https://www.qt.io/download either in pre-compiled binary form or source code which needs to be compiled by the user. Information of the exact version of Qt that is used by StarStaX is available from the menu item “Information about Qt” in the “Help” menu of StarStaX. Instructions on how to compile the Qt toolkit from source are found at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/build-sources.html.

Compliance with OpenSSL License

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).

StarStaX uses the OpenSSL Toolkit under the terms of the dual OpenSSL License and the SSLeay license. In order to be in compliance with those licenses, acknowledgements of the use of OpenSSL are given in the “About StarStaX” dialog. The full text of the dual OpenSSL License and the SSLeay license is provided in the downloadable software package.