Open source license, Appendix, Gnu general public license – LG 32LV2400 User Manual

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APPENDIX

Open Source License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2, June 1991

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 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.

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