[The text of this licence will be replaced with the Mithral License A as soon as it's finished, the goals are the same however]

Phase 1 Cosm License

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PHASE 1 COSM
SOFTWARE LICENSE

1. You are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to use the Software subject to the terms and conditions of this License. You may use the Software on any computer for any commercial or non-commercial or research work, provided that you do the following: make available the source code used in the project at the start of such project, and any changes in the source during the course of the project, make available within 30 days of project completion all data and results of your project for which you used the Software, and if the project takes over 60 days to complete, or is continuous, publish all data and results of such project every 60 days, or if this is impractical, transmit the above to a third party, named by Licensor, to be made a part of a public archive.

2. You may copy and distribute exact copies of the Software, as received by you, to third parties, provided that included with such copying and distribution is a copy of this License. You must include in such copies all credits and revision histories as were contained in the original received by you. You may not charge any fees (other than a fee to cover the actual costs of the physical transfer) to any third party for such copying and distribution.

3. You may NOT make any change, removal or additions to the Software's underlying protocols or APIs without the prior written permission of Licensor. Other than this, you may make modifications to the Software, but you must offer to Licensor, for distribution to all other users, all such modifications made for porting, optimization, or other purposes, so that all users can benefit, and you hereby grant to Licensor a nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free license to such modifications. You must distribute or publish any resulting modified Software that you create at no charge to any third party, and the distribution must be under the terms of this License. If any such modification is made, you must post a prominent notice in the modified code that the Software has been modified, and you must include a description of what the modifications are. It is the intent of this provision that all users of the Software have access to all modifications to the Software. You hereby recognize that it is the intent of the Licensor that the Software shall not develop into variants that may result in the inability of projects to run except on a particular variant of the Software.

4. You will use your best efforts to discontinue the use and distribution of earlier versions of the Software once a new version, update or upgrade is available. You will also use your best efforts to distribute such new version, update or upgrade to any third party to whom you may have distributed an earlier version.

5. THE SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE AND LICENSOR DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANTY THAT ANY PROJECT WILL RUN SUCCESSFULLY, OR PRODUCE CORRECT DATA, IF THE SOFTWARE IS USED TO RUN SUCH PROJECT. YOU HEREBY RECOGNIZE AND AGREE THAT THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU HEREBY AGREE THAT YOU USE THE SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND LICENSOR MAKES NO REPRESENTATION AS TO THE QUALITY OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE. LICENSOR SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR NATURE, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY ENTITLEMENT THERETO.