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Inothercases,permissiontouseaparticularlibraryinnon-freeprogramsenablesagreater
numberofpeopletousealargebodyoffreesoftware.Forexample,permissiontousethe
GNUCLibraryinnon-freeprogramsenablesmanymorepeopletousethewholeGNU
operatingsystem,aswellasitsvariant,theGNU/Linuxoperatingsystem.
AlthoughtheLesserGeneralPublicLicenseisLessprotectiveoftheusers'freedom,itdoes
ensurethattheuserofaprogramthatislinkedwiththeLibraryhasthefreedomandthe
wherewithaltorunthatprogramusingamodifiedversionoftheLibrary.
Theprecisetermsandconditionsforcopying,distributionandmodificationfollow.Pay
closeattentiontothedifferencebetweena"workbasedonthelibrary"anda"workthat
usesthelibrary".Theformercontainscodederivedfromthelibrary,whereasthelatter
mustbecombinedwiththelibraryinordertorun.
TERMSANDCONDITIONSFORCOPYING,DISTRIBUTIONANDMODIFICATION
0.ThisLicenseAgreementappliestoanysoftwarelibraryorotherprogramwhichcontains
anoticeplacedbythecopyrightholderorotherauthorizedpartysayingitmaybe
distributedunderthetermsofthisLesserGeneralPublicLicense(alsocalled"this
License").Eachlicenseeisaddressedas"you".
A"library"meansacollectionofsoftwarefunctionsand/ordatapreparedsoastobe
convenientlylinkedwithapplicationprograms(whichusesomeofthosefunctionsand
data)toformexecutables.
The"Library",below,referstoanysuchsoftwarelibraryorworkwhichhasbeen
distributedundertheseterms.A"workbasedontheLibrary"meanseithertheLibraryor
anyderivativeworkundercopyrightlaw:thatistosay,aworkcontainingtheLibraryora
portionofit,eitherverbatimorwithmodificationsand/ortranslatedstraightforwardlyinto
anotherlanguage.(Hereinafter,translationisincludedwithoutlimitationintheterm
"modification".)
"Sourcecode"foraworkmeansthepreferredformoftheworkformakingmodificationsto
it.Foralibrary,completesourcecodemeansallthesourcecodeforallmodulesit
contains,plusanyassociatedinterfacedefinitionfiles,plusthescriptsusedtocontrol
compilationandinstallationofthelibrary.
Activitiesotherthancopying,distributionandmodificationarenotcoveredbythisLicense;
theyareoutsideitsscope.TheactofrunningaprogramusingtheLibraryisnotrestricted,
andoutputfromsuchaprogramiscoveredonlyifitscontentsconstituteaworkbasedon
theLibrary(independentoftheuseoftheLibraryinatoolforwritingit).Whetherthatis
truedependsonwhattheLibrarydoesandwhattheprogramthatusestheLibrarydoes.
1.YoumaycopyanddistributeverbatimcopiesoftheLibrary'scompletesourcecodeas
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