Samsung SCX-8128NA-XAA User Manual

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of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The license agreements of most software companies try to keep users

at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our 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. The

General Public License applies to the Free Software Foundation's

software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it.

You can use it for your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not

price. Specifically, the General Public License is designed to make

sure that you have the freedom to give away or sell copies of free

software, 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 a such a program, whether

gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that

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