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THE LIBRARY TO OPERATE WITH ANY
OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH
HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
END OF TERMS AND
CONDITIONS
Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to
Your New Libraries
If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of
the greatest possible use to the public, we recommend
making it free software that everyone can redistribute
and change. You can do so by permitting redistribution
under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of
the ordinary General Public License).
To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the
library. 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 library's name and a brief idea of
what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/
or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library
General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version.
This library 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 Library General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library
General Public License along with this library; if not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass
Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by
electronic and paper mail.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a
programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a
"copyright disclaimer" for the library, if necessary.
Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest
in the library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs)
written by James Random Hacker.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
Ty Coon, President of Vice
That's all there is to it!
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
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