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Overview Privacy Legalese Services Rendering problems?	Ownership of Content Ringlord Technologies is a privately held company. The name, logo (and variations), contents of the Ringlord Technologies web site, and all materials published by Ringlord Technologies regardless of their nature or the medium of publication are subject to United States copyright laws. Ringlord Technologies will enforce all copyrights of its materials. The addition, removal, or alteration of links, images, or text from any representation of our works represents a violation of our copyrights. What this means: you may use the materials that we publish (such as scripts, how-to knowledge, etc.) provided you do not alter the content in such a way that it misrepresents what we said. More succinctly, you may not alter URLs to sites that we reference, add such URLs where there were none before, or remove them from the text (either manually or through any other means). The key issue is the misrepresentation of intent; if you are a search engine, such as Google!, you may dynamically alter the URLs to point to your own caches. Much beyond that is no longer fair use. We honour reasonable use and representation of our materials; we also allow the reproduction of our materials provided that you ask for it on a case-by-case basis. Translation: we're cool if you're cool, but we won't have anyone making a lie of our materials, stealing them, or whatever the case might be. So, be cool, eh? :-) Software Licenses It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of our software does not conflict with the license under which the software is made available to you. That means that you are responsible for understanding what the license means. The following paragraphs are not to be misconstrued as a complete disclosure of the various licenses that Ringlord Technologies uses: GNU General Public License (GPL) Any work based on GPL code must also be licensed under the GPL. The purpose is to prevent you from taking a free (unfettered, unchained) piece of work and turning it into one that is no longer free to enrich the software development community. Do not use GPL code if you don't want your derivative work to be available under the GPL, too. Free as in Beer This expression refers to the product being available for free, but its receipe (source code) may be closed. You can download and use it. So long as the binary satisfies your needs you're gonna be happy. Free as in Speech This expression refers to the product's receipe (source code) being available for free (source code is speech, after all); you can either build your own binary from this source code or rely on a binary that may be provided with the product. You are are also free to examine the source code, learn from it, and improve upon it. The GPL is a "free as in speech" license with the additional provisions that any derivative of that "speech" must be equally free (also GPL). Linking to Ringlord Technologies We appreciate linking to any of our pages so long as such linking is in good faith and does not misrepresent us or the content of our pages. In other words, feel free to link to any of our materials directly but please do not embed our pages in an HTML ``frame'', and do not alter our content (which includes, but is not limited to the addition or removal of text, images, links, etc.) Not only would such alteration sew confusion about the boundaries of content ownership but you could be seriously misrepresenting our materials and our intention. Please note that the addition or removal of links to our content would represent just such a violation of our copyright. The easiest way to stay on safe ground with this issue is to ensure that your links use a ``target'' in the anchor, such as the following (the target="_top" is the important bit, though you may wish to use target="_blank" to open it in a new browser window): <a href="http://www.ringlord.com/" target="_top">...</a> Liability We are liable solely for our own content, as transmitted by our server. Any alteration of the content en route, by a proxy, a browser, or other agent may represent a violation of our copyright, in which case we must disavow all liability whatsoever. The materials of our users (those who maintain their own pages under the /people directory tree) is entirely the responsibility of the respective individual. If do not like or even feel offended by anything you find on this domain, keep in mind that it was by your own actions that you came to our pages. If someone else led you here and you didn't like it, then go bother them about it, not us. Ownership of the Name Ringlord Technologies is in no way, shape, or form associated with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, or any related or derivative works by J.R.R. Tolkien or his heirs or agents. No such relationship is implied or intended by Ringlord Technologies for any reason, and no such relationship should be inferred or assumed by anyone for any reason whatsoever.
	Copyright © 1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003 Ringlord Technologies The alteration of any part of this content by manual or automated means (adding, removing, or in any other way altering links, text, or images) constitutes misrepresentation of our content in violation of United States copyright law. For more details, please see our content ownership details page for elaboration.