Samsung SNB-3000(P) User Manual

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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.

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