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FreeMACS GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1986 Russell Nelson
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license, but changing it is not allowed.
The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the
mercy of those companies. By contrast, our general public license is
intended to give everyone the right to share Freemacs. To make
sure that you get the rights we want you to have, we need to make
restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you
to surrender the rights. Hence this license agreement.
Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
away copies of Emacs, that you receive source code or else can get it
if you want it, that you can change Emacs or use pieces of it in new
free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to
deprive anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute
copies of Emacs, 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 tell them their rights.
Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
finds out that there is no warranty for Freemacs. If Emacs is
modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know
that what they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems
introduced by others will not reflect on our reputation.
Therefore I (Russell N. Nelson) make the following terms which say what
you must do to be allowed to distribute or change Freemacs.
COPYING POLICIES
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of Freemacs source
code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously
and appropriately publish on each file a valid copyright notice such
as "Copyright (C) 1986 Russell N. Nelson", containing the year of
last change and name of copyright holder for the file in question;
keep intact the notices on all files that refer to this License
Agreement and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other
recipients of the Freemacs program a copy of this License Agreement
along with the program.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of Freemacs source code or
any portion of it, and copy and distribute such modifications under
the terms of Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:
a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
who last changed such files and the date of any change; and
b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of Freemacs
or any part thereof, to be freely distributed
and licensed to all third parties on terms identical to those
contained in this License Agreement (except that you may choose
to grant more extensive warranty protection to third parties,
at your option).
c) if the modified program serves as a text editor, cause it
when started running in the simplest and usual way, to print
an announcement including a valid copyright notice ("Copyright
(C)", the year of authorship, and all copyright owners' names),
saying that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of
this License Agreement.
3. You may copy and distribute Freemacs or any portion of it in
compiled, executable or object code form under the terms of Paragraphs
1 and 2 above provided that you do the following:
a) cause each such copy of Freemacs to be accompanied by the
corresponding machine-readable source code; or
b) cause each such copy of Freemacs to be accompanied by a
written offer, with no time limit, to give any third party
free (except for a nominal shipping charge) machine readable
copy of the corresponding source code; or
c) in the case of a recipient of Freemacs in compiled, executable
or object code form (without the corresponding source code) you
shall cause copies you distribute to be accompanied by a copy
of the written offer of source code which you received along
with the copy of Freemacs.
4. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer Freemacs
except as expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt
otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer Freemacs is void and
your rights to use Freemacs under this License agreement shall be
automatically terminated. However, parties who have received computer
software programs from you with this License Agreement will not have
their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
Your comments and suggestions about our licensing policies and our
software are welcome! Please contact Russell Nelson, 11 Grant St.,
Potsdam, NY, 13676.
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NO WARRANTY
BECAUSE FreeMACS IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE STATE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, RUSSELL N. NELSON AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
PROVIDE FreeMACS "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
FreeMACS PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL RUSSELL N. NELSON
AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE FreeMACS AS
PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST
PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE (INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES
SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH
PROGRAMS NOT DISTRIBUTED BY RUSSELL N. NELSON ) THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF YOU
HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY
ANY OTHER PARTY.