This program is released to the public domain. It is completely without a copyright, copyleft, or license of any kind. This code may be hacked, cracked, munged, split, merged, fixed, tossed, heaved, hurled, copied, deleted, erased, eliminated, annihilated, altered, tailored, capped, cut, pasted, glued, fnord mauled, pared, extended, archived, fed, bloated, thinned, chewed, mangled, mulched, fertilized, smoked, burned, toasted, slit, floated, consumed, exhumed, exhaled, draped, dubbed, subtitled, optimized, sped up, slowed down, captured, uploaded, downloaded, folded, spindled, mutilated, crumpled, flattened, crushed, cranked, torn, curved, tensed, slapped together, ripped apart, spit upon, gnued, lexed, yacced, bisoned, and especially rabbits. This code is not Freeware, Begware, Nagware, Crippleware, or Shareware. It is public domain CHAINWARE. SEND NO MONEY. No operators are standing by. No salesman will call. If you want to make a payment for this program, write your own program and release it, including source, as Chainware. Within a few months, thousands of programs will fill the Internet in return for your contribution. DON'T BREAK THE CHAIN!!!!!! Little Billy G. broke the chain and bad luck immediately struck him in the form of numerous anti-trust lawsuits and a cream pie. It wasn't even banana cream! Chain breaker Mother Theresa died soon after breaking the chain. Some claim it was because she was 142 years old, but we know better. And a metal fellow named Marvin had this to say: "I'm so depressed." He had also broken the chain! THIS WORKS EVEN IF YOU AREN'T SUPERSTITIOUS!!!!!! Don't delay in writing your program. Your luck isn't fooled by good intentions, and will turn bad unless you get started immediately. Even if you can't program, all is not lost. Answer a question on Usenet if it has gone unanswered for two days. Improve the jokes in this license. Don't respond to flame bait in a flame war. Kill a spammer. Create an HTML page with INTERESTING and ORIGINAL content. If you can't come up with anything interesting to say, find a new program that belongs on a particular FTP site and upload it there. Any of these actions will make the world a better place and prevent the chain from being broken. When you have written your program or performed your action, add it to the bottom of the list below and include this file with your offering. When everyone else joins in the chain and releases programs for your enjoyment, you'll have good luck galore! In fact, if your program causes just 10 other people to write one, each of which causes 10 more programs to be written, within 17 years the entire mass of the Earth will be composed of electrons representing Chainware software. In 21 years the entire Milky Way will be organized into programs. That's the beauty of pyramid schemes like this one. Just think of it. By keeping entropy away, you could be preventing the heat death of the universe. Just keep the chain intact. REMEMBER: Open-source software is a win for everyone. Free software for the masses. A hard drive in every pot. CHAINWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Programs in this branch of the chain: The Java Open Source Library - A central repository for Open Source software written in Java. Maintained by Bruce Atherton, Vancouver BC (bruce@callenish.com) <>