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Gnomovision ist freie Software, die Sie unter
bestimmten Bedingungen weitergeben dürfen; geben
Sie „show c“ für Details ein.

Die hypothetischen Kommandos „show w“ und „show c“
sollten die entsprechenden Teile der GNU-GPL anzeigen.
Natürlich können die von Ihnen verwendeten Kommandos
anders heißen als „show w“ und „show c“; es könnten
auch Mausklicks oder Menüpunkte sein – was immer am
besten in Ihr Programm passt.

Soweit vorhanden, sollten Sie auch Ihren Arbeitgeber
(wenn Sie als Programmierer arbeiten) oder Ihre Schule
einen Copyright-Verzicht für das Programm
unterschreiben lassen. Hier ein Beispiel. Die Namen
müssen Sie natürlich ändern.

Die Yoyodyne GmbH erhebt keinen
urheberrechtlichen Anspruch auf das von James
Hacker geschriebene Programm „Gnomovision“
(einem Schrittmacher für Compiler).

<Unterschrift von TyCoon>, 1, April 1989 Ty Coon,
Vizepräsident

Diese General Public License gestattet nicht die
Einbindung des Programms in proprietäre Programme. Ist
Ihr Programm eine Funktionsbibliothek, so kann es
sinnvoller sein, das Linken proprietärer Programme mit
dieser Bibliothek zu gestatten. Wenn Sie dies tun wollen,
sollten Sie die GNU Lesser General Public License
anstelle dieser Lizenz verwenden.

GNU LESSER GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2.1, February 1999

Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute
verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it
is not allowed.

[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It
also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public
License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.]

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away
your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the
GNU General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee
your freedom to share and change free software--to make
sure the software is free for all its users.

This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to
some specially designated software packages--typically
libraries--of the Free Software Foundation and other
authors who decide to use it. You can use it too, but we
suggest you first think carefully about whether this license

or the ordinary General Public License is the better
strategy to use in any particular case, based on the
explanations below.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to
freedom of use, not price. Our General Public Licenses are
designed to make sure that you have the freedom to
distribute copies of free software (and charge for this
service if you wish); that you receive source code or can
get it if you want it; that you can change the software and
use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you are
informed that you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that
forbid distributors to deny you these rights or to ask you to
surrender these rights. These restrictions translate to
certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of
the library or if you modify it.

For example, if you distribute copies of the library,
whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all
the rights that we gave you. You must make sure that they,
too, receive or can get the source code. If you link other
code with the library, you must provide complete object
files to the recipients, so that they can relink them with the
library after making changes to the library and
recompiling it. And you must show them these terms so
they know their rights.

We protect your rights with a two-step method: (1) we
copyright the library, and (2) we offer you this license,
which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/
or modify the library.

To protect each distributor, we want to make it very clear
that there is no warranty for the free library. Also, if the
library is modified by someone else and passed on, the
recipients should know that what they have is not the
original version, so that the original author’s reputation
will not be affected by problems that might be introduced
by others.

Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the
existence of any free program. We wish to make sure that
a company cannot effectively restrict the users of a free
program by obtaining a restrictive license from a patent
holder. Therefore, we insist that any patent license
obtained for a version of the library must be consistent
with the full freedom of use specified in this license.

Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered
by the ordinary GNU General Public License. This
license, the GNU Lesser General Public License, applies
to certain designated libraries, and is quite different from
the ordinary General Public License. We use this license
for certain libraries in order to permit linking those
libraries into non-free programs.

When a program is linked with a library, whether
statically or using a shared library, the combination of the
two is legally speaking a combined work, a derivative of
the original library. The ordinary General Public License
therefore permits such linking only if the entire
combination fits its criteria of freedom. The Lesser
General Public License permits more lax criteria for
linking other code with the library.

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