.. _copyright:

Copyright and licensing
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GreynirEngine is *copyright © 2023 Miðeind ehf.*, Reykjavík, Iceland.

The project's original author is *Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson*.

This software is licensed under the 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:*

*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.*

.. note::

    GreynirEngine indirectly embeds the `Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection <https://bin.arnastofnun.is>`_
    (`Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls <https://bin.arnastofnun.is>`_), abbreviated BÍN.

    The BÍN source data are publicly available under the CC-BY-4.0 license, as further
    detailed `here in English <https://bin.arnastofnun.is/DMII/LTdata/conditions/>`_
    and `here in Icelandic <https://bin.arnastofnun.is/gogn/mimisbrunnur/>`_.

    In accordance with the BÍN license terms, credit is hereby given as follows:

    *Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls. Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum. Höfundur og ritstjóri Kristín Bjarnadóttir.*

    GreynirEngine accesses BÍN data through another package from the same authors
    called BinPackage, and further information is available in that package's
    `GitHub repository <https://github.com/mideind/BinPackage>`_.
