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1 @node Library Copying | |
2 @appendixsec GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE | |
3 | |
4 @cindex LGPL, Lesser General Public License | |
5 @center Version 2.1, February 1999 | |
6 | |
7 @display | |
8 Copyright @copyright{} 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
9 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA | |
10 | |
11 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
12 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
13 | |
14 [This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts | |
15 as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the | |
16 version number 2.1.] | |
17 @end display | |
18 | |
19 @appendixsubsec Preamble | |
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21 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your | |
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553 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your | |
554 school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the library, if | |
555 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: | |
556 | |
557 @smallexample | |
558 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the library | |
559 `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker. | |
560 | |
561 @var{signature of Ty Coon}, 1 April 1990 | |
562 Ty Coon, President of Vice | |
563 @end smallexample | |
564 | |
565 That's all there is to it! |