Alcatel-Lucent 6600 C. Linux, D. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE: Version 2, June 1991

Software License and Copyright Statements Third Party Licenses and Notices

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C. Linux

Linux is written and distributed under the GNU General Public License which means that its source code

is freely-distributed and available to the general public.

D. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE: Version 2, June 1991

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is

not allowed.

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By

contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free

software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of

the Free Software Foundation’s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it.

(Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License

instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are

designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this

service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the soft-

ware or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask

you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute

copies of the software, or if you modify it.

For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the

recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source

code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.

We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which

gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.

Also, for each author’s protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there

is no warranty for this free software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want

its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others

will not reflect on the original authors’ reputations.

Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that

redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program

proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone’s free use

or not licensed at all.

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

0This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright

holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The “Program”, below,

refers to any such program or work, and a “work based on the Program” means either the Program or any

derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either