Appendix E Open Software Announcements

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the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your 
programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, 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 
or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these 
things. 

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny 
you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate 
to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you 
modify it. For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis 
or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must 
make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show 
them these terms so they know their rights.

We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer 
you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify 
the software. Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain 
that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the 
software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to 
know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by 
others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations.

Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to 
avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain 
patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we 
have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not 
licensed at all.

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow. 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND 
MODIFICATION

0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice 
placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this 
General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or 
work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any 
derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program 
or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into 
another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the 
term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you". Activities other than 
copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are 
outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output