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All rights to the information expressed here belong to me. Few, if any, of the philosophies or ideas expressed here are original. However, the way in which they are expressed is unique. Therefore, anyone wanting to publicly redistribute the documents I have written must contact me and gain my written permission,
UNLESS: Your name was explicitly mentioned anywhere in this page with the provision that you could use or copy this. If this is the case, you have an exclusive, nontransferrable right to publish anything here. If you are one of these people and you are afraid I am trying to set a legal trap, contact me personally and I will sign a legal contract to reassure you. However, if I said you personally could use this, I consider my words to be sufficient to constitute written permission.
I hold no registered or official copyrights on any of this. However, fortunately enough, the United States legal system still protects me and my work. I am not here to nitpick about legal matters. I don't want to spend my life in court any more than anybody else does. I must, however, make sure my rights are comfortably secure. I don't want magazines, books, other online publications, or anyone else distributing my work on a mass scale without my knowledge and consent.
If you want to download this stuff and share any part or all of it with your friends, go for it! I can't stop you nor do I want to. Go ahead and spread these things around the newsgroups and mailing lists. The people I will go after are the ones who try to profit off of me without giving me my cut. So if you post this stuff in conjunction with other advertising, try to charge money for it, or otherwise use it in a way which offends me, you better hope I don't find out about it. Not only will I take every legal measure available to stop you, but I will publicly denounce you here.
If you want to put this stuff in a commercial publication, I will more than happy to talk to you about it. I do not guarantee that I will give you permission. I may charge a fee or royalty if I so desire. If you don't want to pay whatever fee I ask, make me an offer and we can negotiate. I am not hard-nosed, nor will I allow myself to be taken advantage of in a way which I believe to be unfair.
Finally, I lay out these terms in the hopes that they will save me and others a lot of disputes and problems in the future. I want to live a peaceful life. Doing so requires me to keep my guard up so as not to be exploited, injured, or destroyed. If anything here is unclear or you have any questions about what you can or cannot do with this work, ask me. If it involves something I haven't already explained, I will not only answer your email, but I will make sure that I publicly clarify the issue by amending this document. That way, I won't have to explain it a thousand times to everyone else who asks about the same thing. Makes sense, doesn't it?