AuthorsAndCredits – OpenCT

# Authors and Credits

This page lists the authors of OpenCT and all those people who helped developing it or whose code was reused, in alphabetical order.

- Alexandre Becoule
- Alon Bar-Lev
- Andreas Jellinghaus
- Antoine Nguyen
- Antti Andreimann
- Antti Tapaninen
- Carlos Henrique Bauer
- Carlos Prados
- Chaskiel Grundman
- Dave Medin
- David Corcoran
- Harald Welte
- Johannes Erdfelt
- Juan Carlos Borras
- Laurent Pinchart
- Lorenz Knauer
- Ludovic Rousseau
- Markus Friedl
- Matthias Bruestle
- Michael Haardt
- Olaf Kirch
- Stef Hoeben
- Ville Skyttä
- William Wanders

Thanks to everyone. If we have forgotten anyone, please add yourself to this list.

## Licensing

        OpenCT smart card reader drivers, middleware and library
        (C) 2003-2006 Copyright by the OpenCT Authors listed above

        This software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
        modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
        License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
        version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

        This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
        Lesser General Public License for more details.

        You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
        License along with this library in the file "LGPL-2.1".

OpenCT as whole is licensend under LGPL license.

Parts of the USB code and the Smartmouse/Phoenix driver are only under that license, most other parts (older code) is also licensed under the new new BSD license:

       OpenCT smart card reader drivers, middleware and library
       (C) 2003-2006 Copyright by the OpenCT Authors listed above

       Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
       modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
       are met:
       1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
          notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
       2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
          notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
          the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
          distribution.
       3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
          products derived from this software without specific prior
          written permission.

       THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
       IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
       WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
       ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY
       DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
       DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
       GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
       INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
       IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
       OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN
       IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

In case that is important to you: you can use libopenct freely, as it is 100% BSD/LGPL dual licensed. If you need a BSD licensed ifdhandler however you would have to remove the LGPL'ed part (linux usb code and smph driver).

OpenCT contains svn2cl to create the changelog:

       Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Arthur de Jong.

       Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
       modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
       are met:
       1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
          notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
       2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
          notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
          the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
          distribution.
       3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
          products derived from this software without specific prior
          written permission.

       THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
       IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
       WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
       ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY
       DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
       DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
       GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
       INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
       IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
       OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN
       IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.