[280] | 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>A. GNU General Public License</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Synaptic Package Manager Manual V0.1.2"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Synaptic Package Manager Manual V0.1.2"><link rel="prev" href="ar01s08.html" title="About Synaptic Package Manager"><link rel="next" href="apas02.html" title="TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">A. GNU General Public License</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ar01s08.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="apas02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="appendix" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="synaptic-gpl"></a>GNU General Public License</h1></div><div><p class="releaseinfo"> Version 2, June 1991</p></div><div><p class="copyright">Copyright © 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p></div><div><div class="legalnotice"><a name="id2531331"></a><p> |
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| 2 | </p><div class="address"><p>Free Software Foundation, Inc. <br> |
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| 3 | <span class="street">59 Temple Place, Suite 330</span>, <br> |
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| 4 | <span class="city">Boston</span>, <br> |
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| 5 | <span class="state">MA</span> <br> |
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| 6 | <span class="postcode">02111-1307</span><br> |
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| 7 | <span class="country">USA</span><br> |
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| 8 | </p></div><p>. |
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| 9 | </p><p> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. |
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| 10 | </p></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">Version 2, June 1991</p></div></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2531944"></a>Preamble</h2></div></div></div><p> The licenses for most software are designed to take away your |
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| 11 | freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is |
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| 12 | intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change |
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| 13 | free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users. |
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| 14 | This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software |
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| 15 | Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit |
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| 16 | to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered |
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| 17 | by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it |
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| 18 | to your programs, too. |
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| 19 | </p><p> When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. |
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| 20 | Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the |
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| 21 | freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this |
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| 22 | service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you |
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| 23 | want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free |
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| 24 | programs; and that you know you can do these things. |
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| 25 | </p><p> To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone |
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| 26 | to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These |
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| 27 | restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute |
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| 28 | copies of the software, or if you modify it. |
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| 29 | </p><p> For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or |
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| 30 | for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You |
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| 31 | must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you |
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| 32 | must show them these terms so they know their rights. |
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| 33 | </p><p> We protect your rights with two steps: |
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| 34 | </p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p> copyright the software, and |
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| 35 | </p></li><li><p> offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, |
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| 36 | distribute and/or modify the software. |
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| 37 | </p></li></ol></div><p> |
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| 38 | </p><p> Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that |
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| 39 | everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If |
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| 40 | the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its |
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| 41 | recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any |
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| 42 | problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors' |
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| 43 | reputations. |
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| 44 | </p><p> Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. |
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| 45 | We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will |
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| 46 | individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program |
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| 47 | proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be |
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| 48 | licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. |
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| 49 | </p><p> The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification |
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| 50 | follow. |
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