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OpenADS
Copyright 2026 OpenADS contributors

This product includes software developed by the OpenADS contributors
(https://github.com/FiveTechSoft/OpenADS).

Independence and trademarks
---------------------------
OpenADS is an independent open-source project. It is not affiliated
with, sponsored by, or endorsed by SAP SE. "Advantage Database Server",
"ADS", and any related marks, logos, and product names are the property
of their respective owners and are referenced solely to describe
compatibility.

Non-commercial purpose
----------------------
OpenADS is a community-driven preservation effort. It is pursued
without economic benefit to its maintainers; its only goal is to
provide a compatibility path for legacy applications affected by
the discontinuation of the original Advantage Client Engine. The
project does not sell, license, sublicense, or otherwise monetise
the software. Apache License 2.0 still permits downstream
redistribution and commercial use by third parties, but the
upstream maintainers receive no fee for the work.

Provenance
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The codebase is clean-room: written from publicly observable
behaviour and from the public Harbour `contrib/rddads` source. It
is not derived from leaked internal manuals or from disassembly /
reverse engineering of binaries owned by SAP SE. Implementation is
generated by an AI assistant under direct human supervision; every
milestone is reviewed, tested, and committed by a human maintainer.

No warranty, downstream responsibility
--------------------------------------
The software is provided AS IS, without warranty of any kind (see
Apache License 2.0 §7 and §8). Users who deploy OpenADS as a
drop-in replacement remain solely responsible for ensuring that
their own use of related third-party tooling complies with whatever
licenses, EULAs, or service agreements apply to those components.
The project ships no SAP-owned binary and asserts no permission on
behalf of any third-party rightsholder.

Bundled third-party components
------------------------------
This product bundles:

  * tiny-AES-c by kokke — released into the public domain under
    the Unlicense (https://unlicense.org/).
  * doctest by onqtam — released under the MIT License.
  * utf8.h by sheredom — released under the Unlicense.

Each retains its own license; see the corresponding files under
`third_party/`.