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.

 

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

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51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

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.

the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street,

 

Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

[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.]

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice

 

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 software--to make sure

type `show c’ for details.

the software is free for all its users.

The hypothetical commands `show w’ and `show c’ should

This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies

show the appropriate parts of the General Public License.

to some specially designated software packages--typically

Of course, the commands you use may be called something

libraries--of the Free Software Foundation and other authors

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

mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.

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

 

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.

 

This General Public License does not permit incorporating

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that

your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a

forbid distributors to deny you these rights or to ask you to

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