Nixeus Fusion HD User Manual User Manual

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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.

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