GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 1, February 1989
Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
The license agreements of most software companies try to keep
users
at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our 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.
The
General Public License applies to the Free Software
Foundation's
software and to any other program whose authors commit to using
it.
You can use it for your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom,
not
price. Specifically, the General Public License is designed to
make
sure that you have the freedom to give away or sell copies of
free
software, 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 a 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 tell them 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.
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 Agreement 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 work containing
the
Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with
modifications. Each
licensee is addressed as "you".
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the
Program's source
code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and
appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright
notice and
disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to
this
General Public License and to the absence of any warranty; and
give any
other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public
License
along with the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act
of
transferring a copy.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program 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
that
you changed the 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 the Program or any part thereof,
either
with or without modifications, to be licensed at no charge to
all
third parties under the terms of this General Public License
(except
that you may choose to grant warranty protection to some or
all
third parties, at your option).
c) If the modified program normally reads commands
interactively when
run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive
use
in the simplest and most usual way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
notice
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
General
Public License.
d) You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring
a
copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in
exchange for a fee.
Mere aggregation of another independent work with the Program
(or its
derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does
not bring
the other work under the scope of these terms.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a portion or
derivative of
it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under
the terms of
Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the
following:
a) accompany it with the complete corresponding
machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least
three
years, to give any third party free (except for a nominal
charge
for the cost of distribution) a complete machine-readable copy of
the
corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms
of
Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
c) accompany it with the information you received as to where
the
corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative
is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form
alone.)
Source code for a work means the preferred form of the work
for making
modifications to it. For an executable file, complete source code
means
all the source code for all modules it contains; but, as a
special
exception, it need not include source code for modules which are
standard
libraries that accompany the operating system on which the
executable
file runs, or for standard header files or definitions files
that
accompany that operating system.
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or
transfer the
Program except as expressly provided under this General Public
License.
Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or
transfer
the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights
to use
the Program under this License. However, parties who have
received
copies, or rights to use copies, from you under this General
Public
License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
parties
remain in full compliance.
5. By copying, distributing or modifying the Program (or any
work based
on the Program) you indicate your acceptance of this license to
do so,
and all its terms and conditions.
6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based
on the
Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
original
licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
these
terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions
on the
recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
7. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new
versions
of the General Public License from time to time. Such new
versions will
be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in
detail to
address new problems or concerns.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the
Program
specifies a version number of the license which applies to it and
"any
later version", you have the option of following the terms and
conditions
either of that version or of any later version published by the
Free
Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version
number of
the license, you may choose any version ever published by the
Free Software
Foundation.
8. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other
free
programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to
the author
to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the
Free
Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we
sometimes
make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two
goals
of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free
software and
of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
NO WARRANTY
9. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER
PARTIES
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "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
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
10. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO
IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY
AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES
SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH
ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF
THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the
greatest
possible use to humanity, the best way to achieve this is to make
it
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under
these
terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is
safest to
attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey
the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
the
"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is
found.
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of
what it does.>
Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your
option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
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) 19xx 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 a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in
the
program `Gnomovision' (a program to direct compilers to make
passes
at assemblers) written by James Hacker.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
That's all there is to it!