Gnu general public license, Licensing information – Asus DSL-N11 User Manual

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DSL-N11

GNU General Public License

Licensing information

This product includes copyrighted third-party software licensed under the terms of

the GNU General Public License. Please see The GNU General Public License

for the exact terms and conditions of this license. We include a copy of the GPL

with every CD shipped with our product. All future firmware updates will also

be accompanied with their respective source code. Please visit our web site for

updated information. Note that we do not offer direct support for the distribution.

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version , June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

59 Temple Place, Suite 0, Boston, MA 0111-107 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 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 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.

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

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