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<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="id282179"></a><p>
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</p><div class="address"><p>Free Software Foundation, Inc. <br>
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<span class="street">59 Temple Place, Suite 330</span>, <br>
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<span class="city">Boston</span>, <br>
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<span class="state">MA</span> <br>
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<span class="postcode">02111-1307</span><br>
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<span class="country">USA</span><br>
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</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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</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="id282535"></a>Preamble</h2></div></div></div><p> The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is
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intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change
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free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users.
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This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit
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to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered
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by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it
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to your programs, too.
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</p><p> When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
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Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the
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freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this
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service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you
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want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free
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programs; and that you know you can do these things.
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</p><p> To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone
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to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These
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restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute
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copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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</p><p> For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or
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for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You
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must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you
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must show them these terms so they know their rights.
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</p><p> We protect your rights with two steps:
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</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p> copyright the software, and
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</p></li><li><p> offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
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distribute and/or modify the software.
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</p></li></ol></div><p>
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</p><p> Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that
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everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If
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the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its
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recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any
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problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors'
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</p><p> Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents.
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We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will
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individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program
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proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be
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licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
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