Terms and Conditions

Explaining the license

SPIP is a free software distributed under the GPL license . This license guaranties the following freedoms:

-  the freedom to install and use SPIP for whatever usage;
-  the freedom to look into SPIP’s functioning and adapt it to your own needs by modifying the source code to which you have an immediate access for SPIP is entirely developed in PHP;
-  the freedom to distribute copies of the software to anyone, provided you do not modify or delete the license.
-  the freedom to enhance SPIP and to circulate your enhancements among the public so that the entire community benefit from it, provided you do not modify or delete the license.

You must not mistake free software and public domain software. One of the advantages of the GPL license is to guarantee the non-confiscation of the software, as opposed to public domain software that could turn into proprietary software. You benefit from the above freedoms provided you abide by the GPL license; in particular, if you distribute or modify SPIP, you cannot do it under a license that contradicts the GPL license (such as a license forbidding others to modify the source code or to distribute the modified source code).

Practical notes

SPIP being provided gratis by its authors, the said authors do not offer any warranty of any sort with regard to the use you intend to put it to.

You can use SPIP for any purpose (including personal, professional or commercial). You are free to determine the remuneration of your services should the occasion arises and to add, by contract, to your service a sort of warranty for the service provided. But, once more, your contract must not interfere with the GPL license attached to SPIP (for instance, you cannot stop your client from modifying the software).

The text of the GPL licence is provided with SPIP; you can access it from the bottom of every page in the private area.

SPIP, Système de Publication pour l’Internet
Copyright © 2001-2006, Arnaud Martin, Antoine Pitrou, Philippe Rivière and Emmanuel Saint-James.

This application is a free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it according to the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 or (it is your choice) any later version.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; not even the implicit warranty for COMMERCIALISATION or CUSTOMISATION FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For more details, refer to the GNU General Public License.

A copy of the GNU General Public License must be provided with this software; if it is not, please write to the Free Software Foundation Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

You can download this software from http://www.spip.net/; you will find on this site a complete user manual and additional information.

The interface icons are from Diala Aschkar and Jakub “Jimmac” Steiner.

As for the translations of the interface, they are the work of a team of translators gathered on the site spip.net.