0
+ − 1
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml111.dtd">
+ − 2
<html>
+ − 3
<head>
+ − 4
<title>GNU Lesser General Public License</title>
+ − 5
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+ − 6
<style type="text/css">
+ − 7
body {
+ − 8
margin: 0;
+ − 9
padding: 0;
+ − 10
background-color: #FFFFFF;
+ − 11
color: #000000;
+ − 12
}
+ − 13
body div.main {
+ − 14
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
+ − 15
background-color: #F1F3F5;
+ − 16
margin: 10px;
+ − 17
padding: 10px;
+ − 18
}
+ − 19
* {
+ − 20
font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
+ − 21
font-size: 8pt;
+ − 22
}
+ − 23
p {
+ − 24
margin-left: 1.5em;
+ − 25
}
+ − 26
h1, h2, h3 {
+ − 27
color: #50A0D0;
+ − 28
font-weight: normal;
+ − 29
font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
+ − 30
}
+ − 31
h1 {
+ − 32
font-size: 16pt;
+ − 33
}
+ − 34
h2 {
+ − 35
font-size: 12pt;
+ − 36
margin-left: 0.5em;
+ − 37
}
+ − 38
h3 {
+ − 39
font-size: 10pt;
+ − 40
margin-left: 1em;
+ − 41
}
+ − 42
a:link, a:visited, a:active {
+ − 43
color: #3080B0;
+ − 44
text-decoration: none;
+ − 45
border-bottom: 1px dotted #50A0D0;
+ − 46
}
+ − 47
a:hover {
+ − 48
color: #50A0D0;
+ − 49
border-bottom: 1px solid #50A0D0;
+ − 50
}
+ − 51
pre {
+ − 52
font-family: 'courier new', monospace;
+ − 53
background-color: #F8F8F8;
+ − 54
margin: 10px 10px 10px 30px;
+ − 55
max-height: 150px;
+ − 56
clip: rect(0px,auto,auto,0px);
+ − 57
overflow: auto;
+ − 58
padding: 10px;
+ − 59
border: 1px solid #3060B0;
+ − 60
}
+ − 61
li {
+ − 62
list-style-type: square;
+ − 63
}
+ − 64
div.copyright {
+ − 65
text-align: right;
+ − 66
font-size: smaller;
+ − 67
}
+ − 68
div.copyright * {
+ − 69
font-size: smaller;
+ − 70
}
+ − 71
</style>
+ − 72
</head>
+ − 73
<body>
+ − 74
+ − 75
<div class="main">
+ − 76
+ − 77
<h1>GNU Lesser General Public License</h1>
+ − 78
+ − 79
<!-- BEGIN LICENSE TEXT -->
+ − 80
+ − 81
<p>Version 2.1, February 1999</p>
+ − 82
+ − 83
<pre>
+ − 84
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ − 85
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ − 86
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
+ − 87
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+ − 88
+ − 89
[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts
+ − 90
as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence
+ − 91
the version number 2.1.]
+ − 92
</pre>
+ − 93
+ − 94
<h2>Preamble</h2>
+ − 95
+ − 96
<p>The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
+ − 97
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General
+ − 98
Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to share
+ − 99
and change free software--to make sure the software is free for
+ − 100
all its users.</p>
+ − 101
+ − 102
<p>This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to
+ − 103
some specially designated software packages--typically
+ − 104
libraries--of the Free Software Foundation and other authors who
+ − 105
decide to use it. You can use it too, but we suggest you first
+ − 106
think carefully about whether this license or the ordinary
+ − 107
General Public License is the better strategy to use in any
+ − 108
particular case, based on the explanations below.</p>
+ − 109
+ − 110
<p>When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom of
+ − 111
use, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make
+ − 112
sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free
+ − 113
software (and charge for this service if you wish); that you
+ − 114
receive source code or can get it if you want it; that you can
+ − 115
change the software and use pieces of it in new free programs;
+ − 116
and that you are informed that you can do these things.</p>
+ − 117
+ − 118
<p>To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that
+ − 119
forbid distributors to deny you these rights or to ask you to
+ − 120
surrender these rights. These restrictions translate to certain
+ − 121
responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the library
+ − 122
or if you modify it.</p>
+ − 123
+ − 124
<p>For example, if you distribute copies of the library, whether
+ − 125
gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights
+ − 126
that we gave you. You must make sure that they, too, receive or
+ − 127
can get the source code. If you link other code with the library,
+ − 128
you must provide complete object files to the recipients, so that
+ − 129
they can relink them with the library after making changes to the
+ − 130
library and recompiling it. And you must show them these terms so
+ − 131
they know their rights.</p>
+ − 132
+ − 133
<p>We protect your rights with a two-step method: (1) we
+ − 134
copyright the library, and (2) we offer you this license, which
+ − 135
gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the
+ − 136
library.</p>
+ − 137
+ − 138
<p>To protect each distributor, we want to make it very clear
+ − 139
that there is no warranty for the free library. Also, if the
+ − 140
library is modified by someone else and passed on, the recipients
+ − 141
should know that what they have is not the original version, so
+ − 142
that the original author's reputation will not be affected by
+ − 143
problems that might be introduced by others.</p>
+ − 144
+ − 145
<p>Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the
+ − 146
existence of any free program. We wish to make sure that a
+ − 147
company cannot effectively restrict the users of a free program
+ − 148
by obtaining a restrictive license from a patent holder.
+ − 149
Therefore, we insist that any patent license obtained for a
+ − 150
version of the library must be consistent with the full freedom
+ − 151
of use specified in this license.</p>
+ − 152
+ − 153
<p>Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the
+ − 154
ordinary GNU General Public License. This license, the GNU Lesser
+ − 155
General Public License, applies to certain designated libraries,
+ − 156
and is quite different from the ordinary General Public License.
+ − 157
We use this license for certain libraries in order to permit
+ − 158
linking those libraries into non-free programs.</p>
+ − 159
+ − 160
<p>When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or
+ − 161
using a shared library, the combination of the two is legally
+ − 162
speaking a combined work, a derivative of the original library.
+ − 163
The ordinary General Public License therefore permits such
+ − 164
linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria of
+ − 165
freedom. The Lesser General Public License permits more lax
+ − 166
criteria for linking other code with the library.</p>
+ − 167
+ − 168
<p>We call this license the "Lesser" General Public License
+ − 169
because it does Less to protect the user's freedom than the
+ − 170
ordinary General Public License. It also provides other free
+ − 171
software developers Less of an advantage over competing non-free
+ − 172
programs. These disadvantages are the reason we use the ordinary
+ − 173
General Public License for many libraries. However, the Lesser
+ − 174
license provides advantages in certain special circumstances.</p>
+ − 175
+ − 176
<p>For example, on rare occasions, there may be a special need to
+ − 177
encourage the widest possible use of a certain library, so that
+ − 178
it becomes a de-facto standard. To achieve this, non-free
+ − 179
programs must be allowed to use the library. A more frequent case
+ − 180
is that a free library does the same job as widely used non-free
+ − 181
libraries. In this case, there is little to gain by limiting the
+ − 182
free library to free software only, so we use the Lesser General
+ − 183
Public License.</p>
+ − 184
+ − 185
<p>In other cases, permission to use a particular library in
+ − 186
non-free programs enables a greater number of people to use a
+ − 187
large body of free software. For example, permission to use the
+ − 188
GNU C Library in non-free programs enables many more people to
+ − 189
use the whole GNU operating system, as well as its variant, the
+ − 190
GNU/Linux operating system.</p>
+ − 191
+ − 192
<p>Although the Lesser General Public License is Less protective
+ − 193
of the users' freedom, it does ensure that the user of a program
+ − 194
that is linked with the Library has the freedom and the
+ − 195
wherewithal to run that program using a modified version of the
+ − 196
Library.</p>
+ − 197
+ − 198
<p>The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
+ − 199
modification follow. Pay close attention to the difference
+ − 200
between a "work based on the library" and a "work that uses the
+ − 201
library". The former contains code derived from the library,
+ − 202
whereas the latter must be combined with the library in order to
+ − 203
run.</p>
+ − 204
+ − 205
<h2>Terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification</h2>
+ − 206
+ − 207
<p><b>0.</b> This License Agreement applies to any software
+ − 208
library or other program which contains a notice placed by the
+ − 209
copyright holder or other authorized party saying it may be
+ − 210
distributed under the terms of this Lesser General Public License
+ − 211
(also called "this License"). Each licensee is addressed as
+ − 212
"you".</p>
+ − 213
+ − 214
<p>A "library" means a collection of software functions and/or
+ − 215
data prepared so as to be conveniently linked with application
+ − 216
programs (which use some of those functions and data) to form
+ − 217
executables.</p>
+ − 218
+ − 219
<p>The "Library", below, refers to any such software library or
+ − 220
work which has been distributed under these terms. A "work based
+ − 221
on the Library" means either the Library or any derivative work
+ − 222
under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the
+ − 223
Library or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications
+ − 224
and/or translated straightforwardly into another language.
+ − 225
(Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the
+ − 226
term "modification".)</p>
+ − 227
+ − 228
<p>"Source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work
+ − 229
for making modifications to it. For a library, complete source
+ − 230
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus
+ − 231
any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used
+ − 232
to control compilation and installation of the library.</p>
+ − 233
+ − 234
<p>Activities other than copying, distribution and modification
+ − 235
are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The
+ − 236
act of running a program using the Library is not restricted, and
+ − 237
output from such a program is covered only if its contents
+ − 238
constitute a work based on the Library (independent of the use of
+ − 239
the Library in a tool for writing it). Whether that is true
+ − 240
depends on what the Library does and what the program that uses
+ − 241
the Library does.</p>
+ − 242
+ − 243
<p><b>1.</b> You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the
+ − 244
Library's complete source code as you receive it, in any medium,
+ − 245
provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each
+ − 246
copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty;
+ − 247
keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the
+ − 248
absence of any warranty; and distribute a copy of this License
+ − 249
along with the Library.</p>
+ − 250
+ − 251
<p>You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a
+ − 252
copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in
+ − 253
exchange for a fee.</p>
+ − 254
+ − 255
<p><b>2.</b> You may modify your copy or copies of the Library or
+ − 256
any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Library, and
+ − 257
copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of
+ − 258
Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these
+ − 259
conditions:</p>
+ − 260
+ − 261
<ul>
+ − 262
<li><b>a)</b> The modified work must itself be a software
+ − 263
library.</li>
+ − 264
+ − 265
<li><b>b)</b> You must cause the files modified to carry
+ − 266
prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date
+ − 267
of any change.</li>
+ − 268
+ − 269
<li><b>c)</b> You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed
+ − 270
at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this
+ − 271
License.</li>
+ − 272
+ − 273
<li><b>d)</b> If a facility in the modified Library refers to a
+ − 274
function or a table of data to be supplied by an application
+ − 275
program that uses the facility, other than as an argument passed
+ − 276
when the facility is invoked, then you must make a good faith
+ − 277
effort to ensure that, in the event an application does not
+ − 278
supply such function or table, the facility still operates, and
+ − 279
performs whatever part of its purpose remains meaningful.
+ − 280
+ − 281
<p>(For example, a function in a library to compute square roots
+ − 282
has a purpose that is entirely well-defined independent of the
+ − 283
application. Therefore, Subsection 2d requires that any
+ − 284
application-supplied function or table used by this function must
+ − 285
be optional: if the application does not supply it, the square
+ − 286
root function must still compute square roots.)</p>
+ − 287
+ − 288
<p>These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
+ − 289
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the
+ − 290
Library, and can be reasonably considered independent and
+ − 291
separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms,
+ − 292
do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as
+ − 293
separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part
+ − 294
of a whole which is a work based on the Library, the distribution
+ − 295
of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose
+ − 296
permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and
+ − 297
thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.</p>
+ − 298
+ − 299
<p>Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or
+ − 300
contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the
+ − 301
intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of
+ − 302
derivative or collective works based on the Library.</p>
+ − 303
+ − 304
<p>In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the
+ − 305
Library with the Library (or with a work based on the Library) on
+ − 306
a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the
+ − 307
other work under the scope of this License.</p>
+ − 308
</li>
+ − 309
</ul>
+ − 310
+ − 311
<p><b>3.</b> You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
+ − 312
General Public License instead of this License to a given copy of
+ − 313
the Library. To do this, you must alter all the notices that
+ − 314
refer to this License, so that they refer to the ordinary GNU
+ − 315
General Public License, version 2, instead of to this License.
+ − 316
(If a newer version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General
+ − 317
Public License has appeared, then you can specify that version
+ − 318
instead if you wish.) Do not make any other change in these
+ − 319
notices.</p>
+ − 320
+ − 321
<p>Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible
+ − 322
for that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License applies
+ − 323
to all subsequent copies and derivative works made from that
+ − 324
copy.</p>
+ − 325
+ − 326
<p>This option is useful when you wish to copy part of the code
+ − 327
of the Library into a program that is not a library.</p>
+ − 328
+ − 329
<p><b>4.</b> You may copy and distribute the Library (or a
+ − 330
portion or derivative of it, under Section 2) in object code or
+ − 331
executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above
+ − 332
provided that you accompany it with the complete corresponding
+ − 333
machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the
+ − 334
terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for
+ − 335
software interchange.</p>
+ − 336
+ − 337
<p>If distribution of object code is made by offering access to
+ − 338
copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to
+ − 339
copy the source code from the same place satisfies the
+ − 340
requirement to distribute the source code, even though third
+ − 341
parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the
+ − 342
object code.</p>
+ − 343
+ − 344
<p><b>5.</b> A program that contains no derivative of any portion
+ − 345
of the Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being
+ − 346
compiled or linked with it, is called a "work that uses the
+ − 347
Library". Such a work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of
+ − 348
the Library, and therefore falls outside the scope of this
+ − 349
License.</p>
+ − 350
+ − 351
<p>However, linking a "work that uses the Library" with the
+ − 352
Library creates an executable that is a derivative of the Library
+ − 353
(because it contains portions of the Library), rather than a
+ − 354
"work that uses the library". The executable is therefore covered
+ − 355
by this License. Section 6 states terms for distribution of such
+ − 356
executables.</p>
+ − 357
+ − 358
<p>When a "work that uses the Library" uses material from a
+ − 359
header file that is part of the Library, the object code for the
+ − 360
work may be a derivative work of the Library even though the
+ − 361
source code is not. Whether this is true is especially
+ − 362
significant if the work can be linked without the Library, or if
+ − 363
the work is itself a library. The threshold for this to be true
+ − 364
is not precisely defined by law.</p>
+ − 365
+ − 366
<p>If such an object file uses only numerical parameters, data
+ − 367
structure layouts and accessors, and small macros and small
+ − 368
inline functions (ten lines or less in length), then the use of
+ − 369
the object file is unrestricted, regardless of whether it is
+ − 370
legally a derivative work. (Executables containing this object
+ − 371
code plus portions of the Library will still fall under Section
+ − 372
6.)</p>
+ − 373
+ − 374
<p>Otherwise, if the work is a derivative of the Library, you may
+ − 375
distribute the object code for the work under the terms of
+ − 376
Section 6. Any executables containing that work also fall under
+ − 377
Section 6, whether or not they are linked directly with the
+ − 378
Library itself.</p>
+ − 379
+ − 380
<p><b>6.</b> As an exception to the Sections above, you may also
+ − 381
combine or link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library
+ − 382
to produce a work containing portions of the Library, and
+ − 383
distribute that work under terms of your choice, provided that
+ − 384
the terms permit modification of the work for the customer's own
+ − 385
use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications.</p>
+ − 386
+ − 387
<p>You must give prominent notice with each copy of the work that
+ − 388
the Library is used in it and that the Library and its use are
+ − 389
covered by this License. You must supply a copy of this License.
+ − 390
If the work during execution displays copyright notices, you must
+ − 391
include the copyright notice for the Library among them, as well
+ − 392
as a reference directing the user to the copy of this License.
+ − 393
Also, you must do one of these things:</p>
+ − 394
+ − 395
<ul>
+ − 396
<li><b>a)</b> Accompany the work with the complete corresponding
+ − 397
machine-readable source code for the Library including whatever
+ − 398
changes were used in the work (which must be distributed under
+ − 399
Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if the work is an executable linked
+ − 400
with the Library, with the complete machine-readable "work that
+ − 401
uses the Library", as object code and/or source code, so that the
+ − 402
user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified
+ − 403
executable containing the modified Library. (It is understood
+ − 404
that the user who changes the contents of definitions files in
+ − 405
the Library will not necessarily be able to recompile the
+ − 406
application to use the modified definitions.)</li>
+ − 407
+ − 408
<li><b>b)</b> Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking
+ − 409
with the Library. A suitable mechanism is one that (1) uses at
+ − 410
run time a copy of the library already present on the user's
+ − 411
computer system, rather than copying library functions into the
+ − 412
executable, and (2) will operate properly with a modified version
+ − 413
of the library, if the user installs one, as long as the modified
+ − 414
version is interface-compatible with the version that the work
+ − 415
was made with.</li>
+ − 416
+ − 417
<li><b>c)</b> Accompany the work with a written offer, valid for
+ − 418
at least three years, to give the same user the materials
+ − 419
specified in Subsection 6a, above, for a charge no more than the
+ − 420
cost of performing this distribution.</li>
+ − 421
+ − 422
<li><b>d)</b> If distribution of the work is made by offering
+ − 423
access to copy from a designated place, offer equivalent access
+ − 424
to copy the above specified materials from the same place.</li>
+ − 425
+ − 426
<li><b>e)</b> Verify that the user has already received a copy of
+ − 427
these materials or that you have already sent this user a
+ − 428
copy.</li>
+ − 429
</ul>
+ − 430
+ − 431
<p>For an executable, the required form of the "work that uses
+ − 432
the Library" must include any data and utility programs needed
+ − 433
for reproducing the executable from it. However, as a special
+ − 434
exception, the materials to be distributed need not include
+ − 435
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
+ − 436
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of
+ − 437
the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
+ − 438
component itself accompanies the executable.</p>
+ − 439
+ − 440
<p>It may happen that this requirement contradicts the license
+ − 441
restrictions of other proprietary libraries that do not normally
+ − 442
accompany the operating system. Such a contradiction means you
+ − 443
cannot use both them and the Library together in an executable
+ − 444
that you distribute.</p>
+ − 445
+ − 446
<p><b>7.</b> You may place library facilities that are a work
+ − 447
based on the Library side-by-side in a single library together
+ − 448
with other library facilities not covered by this License, and
+ − 449
distribute such a combined library, provided that the separate
+ − 450
distribution of the work based on the Library and of the other
+ − 451
library facilities is otherwise permitted, and provided that you
+ − 452
do these two things:</p>
+ − 453
+ − 454
<ul>
+ − 455
<li><b>a)</b> Accompany the combined library with a copy of the
+ − 456
same work based on the Library, uncombined with any other library
+ − 457
facilities. This must be distributed under the terms of the
+ − 458
Sections above.</li>
+ − 459
+ − 460
<li><b>b)</b> Give prominent notice with the combined library of
+ − 461
the fact that part of it is a work based on the Library, and
+ − 462
explaining where to find the accompanying uncombined form of the
+ − 463
same work.</li>
+ − 464
</ul>
+ − 465
+ − 466
<p><b>8.</b> You may not copy, modify, sublicense, link with, or
+ − 467
distribute the Library except as expressly provided under this
+ − 468
License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, link
+ − 469
with, or distribute the Library is void, and will automatically
+ − 470
terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who
+ − 471
have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will
+ − 472
not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain
+ − 473
in full compliance.</p>
+ − 474
+ − 475
<p><b>9.</b> You are not required to accept this License, since
+ − 476
you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you
+ − 477
permission to modify or distribute the Library or its derivative
+ − 478
works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept
+ − 479
this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Library
+ − 480
(or any work based on the Library), you indicate your acceptance
+ − 481
of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for
+ − 482
copying, distributing or modifying the Library or works based on
+ − 483
it.</p>
+ − 484
+ − 485
<p><b>10.</b> Each time you redistribute the Library (or any work
+ − 486
based on the Library), the recipient automatically receives a
+ − 487
license from the original licensor to copy, distribute, link with
+ − 488
or modify the Library subject to these terms and conditions. You
+ − 489
may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients'
+ − 490
exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible
+ − 491
for enforcing compliance by third parties with this License.</p>
+ − 492
+ − 493
<p><b>11.</b> If, as a consequence of a court judgment or
+ − 494
allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not
+ − 495
limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether
+ − 496
by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the
+ − 497
conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the
+ − 498
conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to
+ − 499
satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and
+ − 500
any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may
+ − 501
not distribute the Library at all. For example, if a patent
+ − 502
license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the
+ − 503
Library by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly
+ − 504
through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this
+ − 505
License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the
+ − 506
Library.</p>
+ − 507
+ − 508
<p>If any portion of this section is held invalid or
+ − 509
unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of
+ − 510
the section is intended to apply, and the section as a whole is
+ − 511
intended to apply in other circumstances.</p>
+ − 512
+ − 513
<p>It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to
+ − 514
infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest
+ − 515
validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of
+ − 516
protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system
+ − 517
which is implemented by public license practices. Many people
+ − 518
have made generous contributions to the wide range of software
+ − 519
distributed through that system in reliance on consistent
+ − 520
application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to
+ − 521
decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any
+ − 522
other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.</p>
+ − 523
+ − 524
<p>This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is
+ − 525
believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License.</p>
+ − 526
+ − 527
<p><b>12.</b> If the distribution and/or use of the Library is
+ − 528
restricted in certain countries either by patents or by
+ − 529
copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places
+ − 530
the Library under this License may add an explicit geographical
+ − 531
distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that
+ − 532
distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus
+ − 533
excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation
+ − 534
as if written in the body of this License.</p>
+ − 535
+ − 536
<p><b>13.</b> The Free Software Foundation may publish revised
+ − 537
and/or new versions of the Lesser General Public License from
+ − 538
time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the
+ − 539
present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems
+ − 540
or concerns.</p>
+ − 541
+ − 542
<p>Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the
+ − 543
Library specifies a version number of this License which applies
+ − 544
to it and "any later version", you have the option of following
+ − 545
the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later
+ − 546
version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Library
+ − 547
does not specify a license version number, you may choose any
+ − 548
version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.</p>
+ − 549
+ − 550
<p><b>14.</b> If you wish to incorporate parts of the Library
+ − 551
into other free programs whose distribution conditions are
+ − 552
incompatible with these, write to the author to ask for
+ − 553
permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
+ − 554
Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we
+ − 555
sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided
+ − 556
by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives
+ − 557
of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of
+ − 558
software generally.</p>
+ − 559
+ − 560
<p><b>NO WARRANTY</b></p>
+ − 561
+ − 562
<p><b>15.</b> BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE,
+ − 563
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE LIBRARY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
+ − 564
APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE
+ − 565
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE LIBRARY "AS
+ − 566
IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
+ − 567
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+ − 568
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE
+ − 569
RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LIBRARY IS WITH
+ − 570
YOU. SHOULD THE LIBRARY PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
+ − 571
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.</p>
+ − 572
+ − 573
<p><b>16.</b> IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR
+ − 574
AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER
+ − 575
PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE LIBRARY AS PERMITTED
+ − 576
ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL,
+ − 577
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
+ − 578
USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE LIBRARY (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
+ − 579
LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES
+ − 580
SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE LIBRARY TO
+ − 581
OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER
+ − 582
PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.</p>
+ − 583
+ − 584
<h2>END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS</h2>
+ − 585
+ − 586
<h2>How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries</h2>
+ − 587
+ − 588
<p>If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the
+ − 589
greatest possible use to the public, we recommend making it free
+ − 590
software that everyone can redistribute and change. You can do so
+ − 591
by permitting redistribution under these terms (or,
+ − 592
alternatively, under the terms of the ordinary General Public
+ − 593
License).</p>
+ − 594
+ − 595
<p>To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the
+ − 596
library. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source
+ − 597
file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and
+ − 598
each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer
+ − 599
to where the full notice is found.</p>
+ − 600
+ − 601
<pre>
+ − 602
<one line to give the library's name and an idea of what it does.>
+ − 603
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
+ − 604
+ − 605
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ − 606
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ − 607
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ − 608
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ − 609
+ − 610
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ − 611
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ − 612
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ − 613
Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ − 614
+ − 615
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ − 616
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ − 617
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ − 618
</pre>
+ − 619
+ − 620
<p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and
+ − 621
paper mail.</p>
+ − 622
+ − 623
<p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a
+ − 624
programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright
+ − 625
disclaimer" for the library, if necessary. Here is a sample;
+ − 626
alter the names:</p>
+ − 627
+ − 628
<pre>
+ − 629
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in
+ − 630
the library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written
+ − 631
by James Random Hacker.
+ − 632
+ − 633
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
+ − 634
Ty Coon, President of Vice
+ − 635
</pre>
+ − 636
+ − 637
<p>That's all there is to it!</p>
+ − 638
+ − 639
<!-- END LICENSE TEXT -->
+ − 640
+ − 641
<div class="copyright">valid <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">xhtml</a> and <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=referer">css</a> | design by <a href="http://enano.homelinux.org/User:dandaman32">dan fuhry</a> and <a href="http://www.fusionnerd.com/">manoj maddali</a></div>
+ − 642
+ − 643
</div>
+ − 644
+ − 645
</body>
+ − 646
</html>