Samsung WAM551-ZA User Manual

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ENd OF TERMS ANd CONdITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible

use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software

which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach

them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion

of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a

pointer to where the full notice is found.
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>

Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under

the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free

Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any

later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT

ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY

or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public

License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along

with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51

Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it

starts in an interactive mode:
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 (LgPL)

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 for the free library. Also, if the library is modified by someone else

and passed on, the recipients should know that what they have is not the

original version, so that the original author's reputation will not be affected

by problems that might be introduced by others.
Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the existence of any free

program. We wish to make sure that a company cannot effectively restrict

the users of a free program by obtaining a restrictive license from a patent

holder. Therefore, we insist that any patent license obtained for a version of

the library must be consistent with the full freedom of use specified in this

license.
Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the ordinary

GNU General Public License. This license, the GNU Lesser General Public

License, applies to certain designated libraries, and is quite different from

the ordinary General Public License. We use this license for certain libraries

in order to permit linking those libraries into non-free programs.
When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a shared

library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work,

a derivative of the original library. The ordinary General Public License

therefore permits such linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria

of freedom. The Lesser General Public License permits more lax criteria for

linking other code with the library.
We call this license the "Lesser" General Public License because it does

Less to protect the user's freedom than the ordinary General Public License.

It also provides other free software developers Less of an advantage over

competing non-free programs. These disadvantages are the reason we use

the ordinary General Public License for many libraries. However, the Lesser

license provides advantages in certain special circumstances.
For example, on rare occasions, there may be a special need to encourage

the widest possible use of a certain library, so that it becomes a de-facto

standard. To achieve this, non-free programs must be allowed to use the

library. A more frequent case is that a free library does the same job as

widely used non-free libraries. In this case, there is little to gain by limiting

the free library to free software only, so we use the Lesser General Public

License.
In other cases, permission to use a particular library in non-free programs

enables a greater number of people to use a large body of free software.

For example, permission to use the GNU C Library in non-free programs

enables many more people to use the whole GNU operating system, as well

as its variant, the GNU/Linux operating system.
Although the Lesser General Public License is Less protective of the users'

freedom, it does ensure that the user of a program that is linked with the

Library has the freedom and the wherewithal to run that program using a

modified version of the Library.

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