/[d-i]/trunk/installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/gpl.xml
ViewVC logotype

Contents of /trunk/installer/doc/manual/en/appendix/gpl.xml

Parent Directory Parent Directory | Revision Log Revision Log


Revision 29618 - (show annotations) (download) (as text)
Sun Jul 31 16:53:48 2005 UTC (7 years, 9 months ago) by fjp
File MIME type: text/xml
File size: 19096 byte(s)
Update address for FSF
1 <!-- retain these comments for translator revision tracking -->
2 <!-- $Id$ -->
3
4 <appendix id="appendix-gpl"><title>GNU General Public License</title>
5
6 <para>
7
8 Version 2, June 1991
9
10 </para><para>
11
12 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
13 &mdash;
14 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
15 </para><para>
16
17 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
18 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
19
20 </para>
21
22 <sect1><title>Preamble</title>
23 <para>
24
25 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom
26 to share and change it. By contrast, the gnu General Public License
27 is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
28 software &mdash; to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
29 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
30 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit
31 to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered
32 by the gnu Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it
33 to your programs, too.
34
35 </para><para>
36
37 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
38 price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
39 have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge
40 for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can
41 get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces
42 of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these
43 things.
44
45 </para><para>
46
47 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
48 anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the
49 rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for
50 you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
51
52 </para><para>
53
54 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
55 gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
56 you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
57 source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
58 rights.
59
60 </para><para>
61
62 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software,
63 and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to
64 copy, distribute and/or modify the software.
65
66 </para><para>
67
68 Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
69 that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
70 software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on,
71 we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the
72 original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect
73 on the original authors' reputations.
74
75 </para><para>
76
77 Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
78 patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
79 program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making
80 the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that
81 any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed
82 at all.
83
84 </para><para>
85
86 The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
87 modification follow.
88
89 </para>
90 </sect1>
91
92 <sect1><title>GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</title>
93 <para>
94
95 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
96
97 </para>
98
99 <itemizedlist><listitem><para>
100
101 This License applies to any program or other work which contains a
102 notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
103 under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
104 refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
105 means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
106 that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
107 either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
108 language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
109 the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
110
111 </para><para>
112
113 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
114 covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
115 running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the
116 Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on
117 the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
118 Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
119
120 </para></listitem>
121 <listitem><para>
122
123 You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
124 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
125 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
126 copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
127 notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any
128 warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this
129 License along with the Program.
130
131 </para><para>
132
133 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
134 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a
135 fee.
136
137 </para></listitem>
138 <listitem><para>
139
140 You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
141 of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
142 distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
143 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
144
145 </para><para>
146
147 a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
148 stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
149
150 </para><para>
151
152 b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
153 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
154 thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
155 under the terms of this License.
156
157 </para><para>
158
159 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when
160 run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use
161 in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement
162 including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is
163 no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that
164 users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and
165 telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if
166 the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an
167 announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print
168 an announcement.)
169
170 </para><para>
171
172 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
173 identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
174 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
175 themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
176 sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
177 distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
178 on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
179 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
180 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote
181 it.
182
183 </para><para>
184
185 Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
186 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
187 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
188 collective works based on the Program.
189
190 </para><para>
191
192 In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the
193 Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a
194 volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other
195 work under the scope of this License.
196
197 </para></listitem>
198 <listitem><para>
199
200 You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
201 under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
202 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the
203 following:
204
205 </para><para>
206
207 a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
208 source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1
209 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
210 or,
211
212 </para><para>
213
214 b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years,
215 to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of
216 physically performing source distribution, a complete
217 machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
218 distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
219 customarily used for software interchange; or,
220
221 </para><para>
222
223 c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to
224 distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed
225 only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the
226 program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in
227 accord with Subsection b above.)
228
229 </para><para>
230
231 The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
232 making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
233 code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
234 associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
235 control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
236 special exception, the source code distributed need not include
237 anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
238 form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
239 operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
240 itself accompanies the executable.
241
242 </para><para>
243
244 If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
245 access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent
246 access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
247 distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
248 compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
249
250 </para></listitem>
251 <listitem><para>
252
253 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
254 except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
255 otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
256 void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this
257 License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from
258 you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so
259 long as such parties remain in full compliance.
260
261 </para></listitem>
262 <listitem><para>
263
264 You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
265 signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
266 distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
267 prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
268 modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
269 Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
270 all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
271 the Program or works based on it.
272
273 </para></listitem>
274 <listitem><para>
275
276 Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
277 Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
278 original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject
279 to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
280 restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted
281 herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third
282 parties to this License.
283
284 </para></listitem>
285 <listitem><para>
286
287 If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
288 infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
289 conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
290 otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do
291 not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
292 distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under
293 this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a
294 consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example,
295 if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of
296 the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly
297 through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this
298 License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the
299 Program.
300
301 </para><para>
302
303 If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
304 any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended
305 to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
306 circumstances.
307
308 </para><para>
309
310 It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
311 patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
312 such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
313 integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
314 implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
315 generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
316 through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
317 system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is
318 willing to distribute software through any other system and a
319 licensee cannot impose that choice.
320
321 </para><para>
322
323 This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
324 be a consequence of the rest of this License.
325
326 </para></listitem>
327 <listitem><para>
328
329 If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
330 certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
331 original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
332 may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
333 those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
334 countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
335 the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
336
337 </para></listitem>
338 <listitem><para>
339
340 The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new
341 versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new
342 versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
343 differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. Each version is
344 given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a
345 version number of this License which applies to it and "any later
346 version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
347 either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
348 Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number
349 of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the
350 Free Software Foundation.
351
352 </para></listitem>
353 <listitem><para>
354
355 If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
356 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the
357 author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by
358 the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation;
359 we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by
360 the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our
361 free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software
362 generally.
363
364 </para><para>
365
366 NO WARRANTY
367
368 </para></listitem>
369 <listitem><para>
370
371 because the program is licensed free of charge, there is no
372 warranty for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
373 except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or
374 other parties provide the program "as is" without warranty of any
375 kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the
376 implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
377 purpose. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the
378 program is with you. should the program prove defective, you assume
379 the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.
380
381 </para></listitem>
382 <listitem><para>
383
384 in no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in
385 writing will any copyright holder, or any other party who may modify
386 and/or redistribute the program as permitted above, be liable to you
387 for damages, including any general, special, incidental or
388 consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the
389 program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being
390 rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a
391 failure of the program to operate with any other programs), even if
392 such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of
393 such damages.
394
395 </para></listitem>
396 </itemizedlist>
397 <para>
398
399 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
400
401 </para>
402 </sect1>
403
404 <sect1><title>How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs</title>
405 <para>
406
407 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
408 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make
409 it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under
410 these terms.
411
412 </para><para>
413
414 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
415 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
416 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
417 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
418
419 </para><para>
420
421 one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it
422 does.
423
424 </para><para>
425
426 Copyright (C) year name of author
427
428 </para><para>
429
430 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
431 it under the terms of the gnu General Public License as published by
432 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
433 your option) any later version.
434
435 </para><para>
436
437 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
438 without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
439 merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the gnu
440 General Public License for more details.
441
442 </para><para>
443
444 You should have received a copy of the gnu General Public License
445 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
446 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
447 MA 02110-1301, USA.
448
449 </para><para>
450
451 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper
452 mail.
453
454 </para><para>
455
456 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like
457 this when it starts in an interactive mode:
458
459 </para><para>
460
461 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
462
463 </para><para>
464
465 Gnomovision comes with absolutely no warranty; for details type `show
466 w'.
467
468 </para><para>
469
470 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
471 certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
472
473 </para><para>
474
475 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the
476 appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the
477 commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and
478 `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items &mdash; whatever
479 suits your program.
480
481 </para><para>
482
483 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or
484 your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the
485 program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
486
487 </para><para>
488
489 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
490 program `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by
491 James Hacker.
492
493 </para><para>
494
495 signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
496
497 </para><para>
498
499 Ty Coon, President of Vice
500
501 </para><para>
502
503 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your
504 program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine
505 library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking
506 proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want
507 to do, use the gnu Library General Public License instead of this
508 License.
509
510 </para>
511 </sect1>
512 </appendix>

Properties

Name Value
svn:keywords Id

  ViewVC Help
Powered by ViewVC 1.1.5