Open source license, Appendix, Gnu general public license – LG 42LD6DDH User Manual

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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2, June 1991

making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made
it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use
or not licensed at all.

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

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION
AND MODIFICATION

0. This license applies to any program or other work which

contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it
may be distributed under the terms of this General Public
License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or
work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the
Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is
to say, a 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 program a copy of this license along
with the Program.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a

copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection
in exchange for a fee.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the program or any

portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and
copy and distribute such modifications or work under the
terms of section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of
these conditions:

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.

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 terms so they
know their rights.

We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the
software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal
permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.

Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make
certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty 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

OPEN SOURCE LICENSE

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