LavaRnd legal stuff

LavaRnd algorithm

We (Landon Curt Noll and Simon Cooper) deliberately placed the LavaRnd algorithm into the public domain in 2001 to help ensure that anyone could use and benefit from our invention.

We deliberately did not patent LavaRnd.

LavaRnd reference implementation

To help make the source code for the LavaRnd reference implementation widely available, we have made use of the LGPL Copyright and License. The LavaRnd reference implementation consists of source code that is under an LGPL and source code which is declared to be in the public domain. Details of this combination can be found in our COPYING file.

Linking to our site

Since some people have already asked / just to be clear:

You are welcome establish links to the HTML and CGI pages on our site. If fact we appreciate & encourage links to our site. After all, that is the way the web was intended to be used!

As a courtesy to us and a kindness to our server(s), please do not directly link to images (e.g., GIF, JPG, PNG, ICO files) on our site. If you want to use any of the images found on this site, then please contact us to ask before doing so. You will find that we are reasonable about reasonable requests.

Trademarks

We have made a effort to honor other people's trademarks. We have also establish a few LavaRnd related trademarks:

LavaRnd^tm is an trademark of Landon Curt Noll and Simon Cooper.
Digital Blender^tm is an trademark of Landon Curt Noll and Simon Cooper.
LavaCan^tm is an trademark of Landon Curt Noll and Mel Pleasant.
LAVA LITE®, Lava, the Lava logo, and the lamp configuration are trademarks of Haggerty Enterprises, Inc.
lavarand^tm is a trademark of SGI.
other trademarks the the trademarks of their owners

If you want to use some LavaRnd trademark, all that you need to do is to put a little TM after the first time you use it in a document / page such as:

LavaRnd^tm

And then somewhere, say in a footer at the end of the document or on site related page such as this, say:

LavaRnd^tm is an trademark of Landon Curt Noll and Simon Cooper.

Links to our site while optional, are useful to identify us specifically.

Copyright on this web site

If you want to use any of the images, text, or web pages found on this site, please contact us to ask before doing so. You will find that we respond reasonably to reasonable requests.