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

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APPENDIX

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

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.

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