Since it has been developed with open source software, we thought it
only fitting that we should return the fruits of our labor to the open
source community. The noted scripts are freely available and may be
used, distributed, or modified, according to the terms of the license agreement.
The license used is the GPL (General Public License). For more information regarding
the software license, see: http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html
The Internet Station Manager (ISM) was developed by the
Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, MI) as a means
of controlling users' time on public Internet stations while reducing staff
intervention. It utilizes a variety of open source software (a.k.a. FREE [as in "free beer"]) to allow
users to log themselves into and use limited library resources.