Open source information, Gnu general public license, Preamble – Samsung ML 2150 User Manual

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Open Source Information

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

This product uses software program which is distributed under the GPL license with “Runtime exception”. You can see
this exception in http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~etsman/Docs/gcc-3.4-base/libstdc++/html/17_intro/license.html. The
following GPL software source codes that have been used in this product can be provided after asking to
[email protected]. GPL software with a “Runtime Exception” : libstdc++

Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

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

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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

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

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

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work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another

language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as

"you".
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The

act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a

work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on

what the Program does.
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided

that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty;

keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the

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You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in

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These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the

Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its

terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same

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