Copyright © 2005, Steve Graham, SAM Code Team

samSiteMap™ is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or (at your option) any later version, subject to our requirements listed here.  Any derivative work must comply with our "Credit Requirements for Derivative Works" section below.

In the event that there is a conflict between any current or future release of the GNU GPL, and any of our requirements stated here, Our requirements will take precedence and void the conflicting sections, or subsections only of the GNU GPL license.

The Copyright holders (Steve Graham, SAM Code Team) specifically exclude any add-on scripts, or add-on APIs written by other individuals (or groups, companies, etc...) and designed to be incorporated into samSiteMap via our normal external script and component API inclusion methodologies from any provisions of, or requirements to also be, GNU GPL licensed.  To qualify for this exclusion, the scripts must not modify or change in any way,  the original code, classes, functions, methodologies, output (except as provided for in the base code of samSiteMap\'s inclusion methods and functions), or files included in samSiteMap and must not duplicate any copyright protected code from samSiteMap which is licensed under the GNU GPL. 

Please note that the GPL states (and we require, in the event that the GNU GPL changes) that any headers in files, and Copyright notices, as well as credits in headers, source files and output (screens, prints, etc.) can not be removed.  You can however, extend them with your own credits.  Make sure you understand our conditions for this, in the section below, if you choose to create a derivative work based on samSiteMap.

Crediting Requirements for Derivative Works:

samSiteMap uses a unique credit rendering system that renders credits for Front End pages on two lines, and Admin (back end) pages on one line. 

The first line of the Front End page\'s credit section is the samSiteMap name and version, linked to the SAM Code Team\'s website.  The second line will alternate between two different credit lines that link back to the websites that underwrote the costs for developing samSiteMap, participated in its development, and made it possible to release samSiteMap under GNU GPL licensing. 

The rendering of these links (credit lines) in the front end must not be modified, except in the following manner:  If you modify samSiteMap, and distribute your modified version, you may add an equal weight second credit line, to the function responsible for creating it, that links back to your website (the original lines must still render two times out of three page loads), and you may replace the first line that links back to the SAM Code Team\'s website with a line linking back to yours (and has the name you are assigning to your project as a link title).  Whether you replace the first line or not, in accordance with the GNU GPL you must indicate in that line that your project is derived from this one (samSiteMap), although it does not have to link back to the SAM Code Team\'s website. 

The credit line in the Admin (back end) section is at the bottom of each page, and links back to the SAM Code Team website.  This line may be modified in the same manner as the first credit line in the Front End.

All credit and copyright sections in all source files must be left Intact and unmodified, although you may add your own on to them in a manner that indicates that you have modified the files, in accordance with, and per requirements of the GNU GPL guidelines.

Per GNU GPL guidelines your derivative product must also be released under, and conform to, GNU GPL Licensing.

This program 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 General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;  if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

The "GNU General Public License" (GNU GPL) is available at:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html