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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 3) ETERNUS CS800 2.3.1 Open-Source Source Codes
received.
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.
Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps:
(1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving
you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.
For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains that
there is no warranty for this free software.
For both users' and authors'
sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed, so that
their problems will not be attributed erroneously to authors of previous
versions.
Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified
versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so.
This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom
to change the software.
The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the
area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most
unacceptable.
Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to
prohibit the practice for those products.
If such problems arise
substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to
those domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom
of users.
Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents. States
should not allow patents to restrict development and use of software on
general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special
danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively
proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to
render the program non-free.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification
follow.
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