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Alloverse is open source. You can read about Alloverse’s license in its LICENSE file.

In addition, Alloverse in turn uses a number of open source projects to work. The licenses of these projects are listed below.

  1. Licenses used by Alloverse
    1. cJSON (used by allonet and more)
    2. CPML (used by alloui)
      1. The MIT License (MIT)
      2. The BSD License (BSD-2-Clause)
    3. enet (used by allonet)
    4. elixir-cmake (used by alloplace)
    5. elixir-uuid (used by alloplace)
    6. graphmath (used by alloplace)
    7. jason (used by alloplace)
    8. lovr (used by allovisor)
    9. lua (used by many)
    10. Oculus SDK (used by lovr-oculus-mobile-alloverse)
    11. opus (used by allonet)
    12. penlight (used by many)
    13. phoenix (used by web)
    14. poison (used by alloplace)
    15. Unity unit testing (used by allonet)
    16. FFMPEG/libavcodec (used by allonet)

cJSON (used by allonet and more)

Copyright (c) 2009-2017 Dave Gamble and cJSON contributors

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 use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

CPML (used by alloui)

CPML is Copyright (c) 2016 Colby Klein shakesoda@gmail.com.

CPML is Copyright (c) 2016 Landon Manning lmanning17@gmail.com.

Code in vec3.lua is derived from hump.vector. (c) 2010-2013 Matthias Richter. MIT.

Portions of mat4.lua are from LuaMatrix, (c) 2010 Michael Lutz. MIT.

Code in simplex.lua is (c) 2011 Stefan Gustavson. MIT.

Code in bound2.lua and bound3.lua are (c) 2018 Andi McClure. MIT.

Code in quat.lua is from Andrew Stacey and covered under the CC0 license.

Code in octree.lua is derived from UnityOctree. (c) 2014 Nition. BSD-2-Clause.

The MIT License (MIT)

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 use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The BSD License (BSD-2-Clause)

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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enet (used by allonet)

Copyright (c) 2002-2016 Lee Salzman

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 use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

elixir-cmake (used by alloplace)

Copyright (c) 2018 Aramis Group, LLC dba code lever

MIT License

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 use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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elixir-uuid (used by alloplace)

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graphmath (used by alloplace)

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jason (used by alloplace)

Copyright 2017 Michał Muskała

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lovr (used by allovisor)

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lua (used by many)

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Oculus SDK (used by lovr-oculus-mobile-alloverse)

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Copyright (c) Facebook Technologies, LLC and its affiliates. All rights reserved. The text of this may be found at: https://developer.oculus.com/licenses/sdk-3.5/

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OCULUS SDK LICENSE

  1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement (the “License”), Facebook Technologies, LLC formerly known as Oculus VR, LLC (“Oculus”) hereby grants to you a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, sublicenseable copyright license to use, reproduce and redistribute (subject to restrictions below) the software contained in this Oculus Software Development Kit for PC and/or mobile (“Oculus SDK”), including, but not limited to, the samples, headers, LibOVR and VRLib headers, LibOVR and VRLib source and, subject to your compliance with Section 3, the headers, libraries and APIs to enable the Platform Services. This License is subject to the following terms and conditions:

1.1 This license grants you the non-exclusive license and right to use (i) the Oculus SDK to make engines, tools, applications, content, games and demos (collectively and generally referred to as “Developer Content”) for use on the Oculus approved hardware and software products (“Oculus Approved Products”) and which may incorporate the Oculus SDK in whole or in part in binary or object code; and (ii) the headers, libraries, APIs and other tools made available by Oculus to enable the use of Platform Services with your Developer Content.

1.2 For the sake of clarification, when you use the Oculus SDK in or with Developer Content, you retain all rights to your Developer Content, and you have no obligations to share or license Developer Content (including your source and object code) to Oculus or any third parties; provided, however, Oculus retains all rights to the Oculus SDK and the headers, libraries and APIs to the Platform Services and other tools made available by Oculus, including those that may be incorporated into your Developer Content.

1.3 You agree that as a condition of this License you will design and distribute your Developer Content to ensure that your Developer Content and any software required to use your Developer Content does not, and you will not, alter or interfere with the normal operation, behavior or functionality of the Oculus hardware or software or Oculus Approved Products, including: (i) the behavior of the “Oculus button” and “XBox button” implemented by the Oculus system software; (ii) any on-screen messages or information; (iii) the behavior of the proximity sensor in the Oculus hardware implemented by the Oculus system software; (iv) Oculus hardware or software security features; (v) end user’s settings; or (vi) the Oculus Flash Screen Warnings. You also agree not to commit any act intended to interfere with the normal operation of the Oculus hardware or software or Oculus Approved Products, or provide software to Oculus users or developers that would induce breach of any Oculus agreements or that contains malware, viruses, hacks, bots, Trojan horses, or other malicious code.

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  3. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Oculus SDK and your Developer Content, including enabled Platform Services, complies with all applicable laws (including privacy laws) wherever your Developer Content is made available. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for any health and safety issues arising from your Developer Content. You will not collect end users’ content or information, or otherwise access any Oculus site, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without Oculus’ prior permission.

  4. Your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this License in and of itself and for all Developer Content created as of March 28, 2016, may be evidenced by any of the following: your usage of the Oculus SDK, or acceptance of the license agreement. As this License is updated for future releases of the Oculus SDK, you agree to abide by and meet all requirements of future updates of this License for those future Oculus SDK releases, with acceptance evidenced by usage of the Oculus SDK or any element thereof and the future updates of this License will apply for that future Developer Content that may be developed for or with that future Oculus SDK or any element thereof (i.e., you cannot sidestep out of the requirements of future updates of the License by developing against an older release of the Oculus SDK or License).

  5. Oculus reserves the right to terminate this License and all your rights hereunder immediately in the event you materially breach this License.

  6. Furthermore, Oculus also reserves the right to cancel or terminate this License for any of the following reasons:

a. Intellectual property infringement by you with Developer Content created by you that is used with or by the Oculus SDK, or any of the Platform Services; b. Developer Content (including enabling Platform Services) that violates applicable law; c. Health and safety issues associated with your Developer Content; d. Failure to comply with or use properly the Oculus Flash Screen Warnings; e. Use of the Oculus SDK with a commercial product other than an Oculus Approved Product; f. Failure to provide required notices as set forth above; and g. Failure to observe the restrictions in Section 3.5.

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     How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
    

If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, we recommend making it free software that everyone can redistribute and change. You can do so by permitting redistribution under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of the ordinary General Public License).

To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the “copyright” line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.

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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the library, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the library `Frob’ (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.

, 1 April 1990 Ty Coon, President of Vice That's all there is to it!