Copyright and terms of use

Adventure Game Studio is an open source software, its source code is available at:
https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags

The software is provided under Artistic License 2.0.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS-IS' AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL CHRIS JONES OR ANY OF THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

NO MONEY WHATSOEVER MAY BE CHARGED FOR ADVENTURE GAME STUDIO UNLESS EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION IS GIVEN BY THE AUTHORS. IF YOU PAID FOR THIS, THE SELLER IS BREACHING THE TERMS OF DISTRIBUTION OF THIS APPLICATION.

AGS is an adventure game creation system. As such, it is provided to you in good faith by its authors. Neither Chris Jones nor any of the contributors can be held responsible for the contents of any works created with AGS, including but not limited to any which infringe on copyright, are libellous or contain offensive material. Please use AGS responsibly.

AGS allows user-made "Plugins" to be incorporated into games created by the system. These Plugins can access all standard Windows functionality and are therefore not protected from system functions as the scripting language is. Neither Chris Jones nor any of the contributors can be held responsible for any Plugins for AGS which you use in your game. Any problems with the Plugin should be addressed to its author.

TrueType font display uses ALFont by Javier Gonzalez and the FreeType project. Distributed under the terms of the FreeType Project license.

OGG Theora player is APEG originally by Chris Robinson, using the Ogg Theora decoder and Ogg Vorbis, which is Copyright (C) Xiph.Org Foundation and contributors.

Audio decoding is SDL Sound, and mixing is MojoAL, both by Ryan C. Gordon, both distributed under the terms of the zlib License. SDL Sound MIDI decoding incorporates Timidity source code, which is dual-licensed under the Perl Artistic License or GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1.

Backend of Audio, Graphics, input and additional systems is SDL2, by Sam Lantinga, and is distributed under the terms of the zlib License.

Partial code from Allegro 4 is included for bitmap and text manipulation. Allegro4 is provided by The giftware license, created by a number of people working in cooperation, and given freely as a gift.

Deflate compression algorithm for sprites and any other game data is performed using Miniz compression library, which is Copyright (C) 2013-2014 RAD Game Tools and Valve Software and (C) 2010-2014 Rich Geldreich and Tenacious Software LLC, distributed under the terms of the MIT License.

Pentium is a trademark of Intel corporation. Windows is a trademark or registered trademark of Microsoft corp.