Appendix, Gnu lesser general public license – LG 47LD500 User Manual

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Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year

name of author Gnomovision comes with

ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details

type ‘show w’. This is free software, and you

are welcome to redistribute it under certain

conditions; type ‘show c’ for details.
The hypothetical commands ‘show w’ and

‘show c’ should show the appropriate parts

of the General Public License. Of course,

the commands you use may be called

something other than ‘show w’ and ‘show

c’; they could even be mouse-clicks or

menu items-whatever suits your program.
You should also get your employer (if you

work as a programmer) or your school, if

any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the

program, if necessary.

Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright

interest in the program ‘Gnomovision’

(which makes passes at compilers) written

by James Hacker.
signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989

Ty Coon, President of Vice
This General Public License does not

permit incorporating your program into

proprietary programs. If your program is

a subroutine library, you may consider it

more useful to permit linking proprietary

applications with the library. If this is what

you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General

Public License instead of this license

GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2.1, February 1999

Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 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.
[This is the first released version of the

Lesser GPL. It also counts as the successor

of the GNU Library Public License, version

2, hence the version number 2.1.]

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed

to take away your freedom to share and

change it. By contrast, the GNU General

Public Licenses are intended to guarantee

your freedom to share and change free

software - to make sure the software is

free for all its users.
This license, the Lesser General Public

License, applies to some specially

designated software packages - typically

libraries - of the Free Software Foundation

and other authors who decide to use it.

You can use it too, but we suggest you first

think carefully about whether this license

or the ordinary General Public License is

the better strategy to use in any particular

case, based on the explanations below.
When we speak of free software, we are

referring to freedom of use, 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

and use pieces of it in new free programs;

and that you are informed that you can do

these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make

restrictions that forbid distributors to deny

you these rights or to ask you to surrender

these rights. These restrictions translate

to certain responsibilities for you if you

distribute copies of the library or if you

modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of the

library, whether gratis or for a fee, you must

give the recipients all the rights that we

gave you. You must make sure that they,

too, receive or can get the source code.

If you link other code with the library, you

must provide complete object files to the

recipients, so that they can relink them

with the library after making changes to

the library and recompiling it. And you

must show them these terms so they know

their rights.
We protect your rights with a two-step

method: (1) we copyright the library, and

(2) we offer you this license, which gives

you legal permission to copy, distribute

and/or modify the library.
To protect each distributor, we want to

make it very clear that there is no warranty

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