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Sample code license

Unless otherwise specified, all sample code included in blog entries and other articles is licensed under the terms of the ISC License (so you should be able to use it anywhere and in any manner you please):

Copyright © 2010 Michael Ekstrand

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Comments license

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Note: The reason we have this clause and choose this license is to legally permit us to display your comments in our site, to rework the site so that your comments are included differently, and to add advertising or other monetizing devices to our site in the future should we choose to do so. You have our word that we will not abuse this to steal your writing.

Credits and Notices

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture is taken from the English Standard Version of the Bible. The ESV attribution follows:

Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Texts indicated NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible.

Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Fonts

Gentium Basic is licensed under the SIL Open Font Licesnse. The TTF files can be downloaded directly here. Web packaging was provided by Font Squirrel.

Sawasdee is from the ThaiFonts project and is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. Web packaging was generated with the Font Squirrel font generator. The source, as received from Ubuntu, is in a tarball.

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The opinions expressed on this site are not necessarily the opinions of anybody. In particular, this site does not represent the University of Minnesota or the Unversity of Minnesota Department of Computer Science and Engineering, their policies, or opinions.