This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/ | subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit | |
or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public | linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what | |
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; | you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License | |
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any | instead of this License. | |
later version. |
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be | GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE | |
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without | Version 2.1, February 1999 | |
even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or | Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | ||
GNU General Public License for more details. | 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA | |
You should have received a copy of the GNU General | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
Public License along with this program; if not, write to | of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
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Fifth Floor, Boston, MA | [This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It | |
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic | also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public | |
and paper mail. | License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.] | |
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like this when it starts in an interactive mode: | Preamble | |
Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author | ||
The licenses for most software are designed to take away | ||
Gnomovision comes withABSOLUTELYNO WARRANTY; | your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU | |
for details type `show w’. This is free software, and you | General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your | |
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; | freedom to share and change free | |
type `show c’ for details. | the software is free for all its users. | |
The hypothetical commands `show w’ and `show c’ should | ||
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show the appropriate parts of the General Public License. | to some specially designated software | |
Of course, the commands you use may be called something | ||
other than `show w’ and `show c’; they could even be | who decide to use it. You can use it too, but we suggest you | |
| first think carefully about whether this license or the ordinary | |
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) | General Public License is the better strategy to use in any | |
or your school, if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the | particular case, based on the explanations below. | |
program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: | When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom | |
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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest | of use, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed | |
in the program `Gnomovision’ (which makes passes at | to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of | |
compilers) written by James Hacker. | free software (and charge for this service if you wish); that you | |
signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989 | receive source code or can get it if you want it; that you can | |
change the software and use pieces of it in new free programs; | ||
Ty Coon, President of Vice | ||
and that you are informed that you can do these things. | ||
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your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a | forbid distributors to deny you these rights or to ask you to |