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18: GNU General Public License
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1.2 harris41 32: Freeware and the free Linux operating system mean <strong>better
33: features</strong>, <strong>better support</strong>, and a
34: <strong>more reliable future</strong> for your institution's educational
35: mission.
36: <br />
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57: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
58: Version 2, June 1991
59:
60: Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
61: 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
62: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
63: of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
64:
65: Preamble
66:
67: The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
68: freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
69: License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
70: software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
71: General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
72: Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
73: using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
74: the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
75: your programs, too.
76:
77: When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
78: price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
79: have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
80: this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
81: if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
82: in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
83:
84: To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
85: anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
86: These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
87: distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
88:
89: For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
90: gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
91: you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
92: source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
93: rights.
94:
95: We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
96: (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
97: distribute and/or modify the software.
98:
99: Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
100: that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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102: want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
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105:
106: Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
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108: program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
109: program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
110: patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
111:
112: The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
113: modification follow.
1.3 harris41 114:
1.1 harris41 115: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
116: TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
117:
118: 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
119: a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
120: under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
121: refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
122: means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
123: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
124: either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
125: language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
126: the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
127:
128: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
129: covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
130: running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
131: is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
132: Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
133: Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
134:
135: 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
136: source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
137: conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
138: copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
139: notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
140: and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
141: along with the Program.
142:
143: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
144: you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
145:
146: 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
147: of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
148: distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
149: above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
150:
151: a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
152: stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
153:
154: b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
155: whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
156: part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
157: parties under the terms of this License.
158:
159: c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
160: when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
161: interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
162: announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
163: notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
164: a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
165: these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
166: License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
167: does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
168: the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
1.3 harris41 169:
1.1 harris41 170: These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
171: identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
172: and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
173: themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
174: sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
175: distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
176: on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
177: this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
178: entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
179:
180: Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
181: your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
182: exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
183: collective works based on the Program.
184:
185: In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
186: with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
187: a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
188: the scope of this License.
189:
190: 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
191: under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
192: Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
193:
194: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
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199: years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
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1.3 harris41 227:
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229: except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
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254: infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
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265:
266: If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
267: any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
268: apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
269: circumstances.
270:
271: It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
272: patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
273: such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
274: integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
275: implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
276: generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
277: through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
278: system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
279: to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
280: impose that choice.
281:
282: This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
283: be a consequence of the rest of this License.
1.3 harris41 284:
1.1 harris41 285: 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
286: certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
287: original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
288: may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
289: those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
290: countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
291: the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
292:
293: 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
294: of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
295: be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
296: address new problems or concerns.
297:
298: Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
299: specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
300: later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
301: either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
302: Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
303: this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
304: Foundation.
305:
306: 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
307: programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
308: to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
309: Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
310: make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
311: of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
312: of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
313:
314: NO WARRANTY
315:
316: 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
317: FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
318: OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
319: PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
320: OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
321: MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
322: TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
323: PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
324: REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
325:
326: 12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
327: WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
328: REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
329: INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
330: OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
331: TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
332: YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
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334: POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
335:
336: END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1.3 harris41 337:
1.1 harris41 338: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
339:
340: If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
341: possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
342: free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
343:
344: To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
345: to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
346: convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
347: the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
348:
1.3 harris41 349: <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
350: Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
1.1 harris41 351:
352: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
353: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
354: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
355: (at your option) any later version.
356:
357: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
358: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
359: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
360: GNU General Public License for more details.
361:
362: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
363: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
364: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
365:
366:
367: Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
368:
369: If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
370: when it starts in an interactive mode:
371:
372: Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
373: Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
374: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
375: under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
376:
377: The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
378: parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
379: be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
380: mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
381:
382: You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
383: school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
384: necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
385:
386: Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
387: `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
388:
1.3 harris41 389: <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
1.1 harris41 390: Ty Coon, President of Vice
391:
392: This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
393: proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
394: consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
395: library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
396: Public License instead of this License.
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