Needle is made available under either the BSD license, or the same license Ruby (which, by extension, also allows the GPL as a permissable license as well). You can view the full text of any of these licenses in the @doc@ subdirectory of the Needle distrubtion. The texts of the BSD and GPL licenses are also available online: "BSD":http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php and "GPL":http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php.

This manual (in any form, be it source or otherwise) and the scripts and templates used to generate it, are all distributed under the "Creative Commons":http://creativecommons.org "Attribution-ShareAlike":http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 license.

If you desire permission to use either Needle or the manual in a manner incompatible with these licenses, please contact the copyright holder ("Jamis Buck":mailto:jamis@37signals.com) in order to negotiate a more compatible license.
