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License
For answers to frequently asked questions
about Paint.NET licensing, please scroll down to the bottom of this
page. Before using Paint.NET, you must accept
the License Agreement as part of the setup process. The license is as
follows, and should be perused.
Paint.NET
Copyright (C)
dotPDN LLC and Rick Brewster. Portions Copyright (C) Chris Crosetto,
Tom Jackson, Michael Kelsey, Brandon Ortiz, Craig Taylor, Chris
Trevino, and Luke Walker.
Portions Copyright (C) Microsoft
Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Paint.NET is a registered
trademark of dotPDN LLC.
Paint.NET is free for use in any
environment, including but not necessarily limited to: personal,
academic, commercial, government, business, non-profit, and
for-profit. "Free" in the preceding sentence means that there is no
cost or charge associated with the installation and use of
Paint.NET. Donations are always appreciated, of course!
http://www.getpaint.net/donate.html
Permission is hereby
granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
software (the "Software"), to use the Software without restriction,
including the rights to use, copy, publish, and distribute the
Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to
do so.
You may not modify, adapt, rent, lease, loan, sell, or
create derivative works based upon the Software or any part thereof.
However, certain icons used in the Paint.NET user interface are from
or adapted from those in the "Crystal" icon set,
http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/, or the "Oxygen" icon set,
http://www.oxygen-icons.org/.
These icons are covered by the LGPL license,
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html. These icons are stored as
"loose" PNG image files in the Resources\en-US\ directory where
Paint.NET is installed.
The above copyright notice and this
permission notice shall be included in all copies 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.
Frequently Asked Questions about Licensing
Can I use Paint.NET for business, commercial,
or government use? Or is it only free for "personal" use?
Yes -- Paint.NET is free for all uses including personal,
business, commercial, government, and school. There has been some
confusion lately around the license and its seemingly hybrid MIT /
Creative Commons status. Rest assured that you really only have to dive
deeper into the legalities of the license if you are planning to do
something such as distributing a modified version of Paint.NET. Usually
this involves downloading the source code, or disassembling /
decompiling stuff. If you're just installing and using Paint.NET, then
there's really no need to worry about that.
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