video.Maru is an open source project started by Dan Florio - polyGeek. There have been a huge number of users who have made feature suggestions to add so I consider the entire user community to be a sort of hive-mind program manager.

I applied the MIT License to video.Maru so that others could use this software without any apprehension. Here is the full text of the MIT License:

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2007 polyGeek

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

So what does all that mean? Essentially you are free to use the SWC for anything you wish. It can be used on commercial sites, you can create custom video interfaces that are driven by video.Maru and sell them - as many have already done, all without any fees, future or past, to be paid to anyone. Nor do you need to publish the fact that you are using video.Maru, although I wouldn’t mind if you did.

You are free to download the source code of video.Maru and use that as you wish. However, in that case you must leave the MIT License intact with the additions you make to the code.

I hope this clears up any confusion or apprehension anyone might have with using video.Maru.