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Appendix C
Documentation Notice for MiniXML
This license, the Library General Public License, applies to some specially designated Free
Software Foundation software, and to any other libraries whose authors decide to use it. You can
use it for your libraries, 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 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 a program 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.
Our method of protecting your rights has two steps: (1) copyright the library, and (2) offer you
this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the library.
Also, for each distributor's protection, we want to make certain that everyone understands that
there is no warranty for this free library. If the library is modified by someone else and passed
on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original version, 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 companies distributing free software will individually obtain patent licenses, thus in
effect transforming the program into proprietary software. To prevent this, we have made it clear
that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the ordinary GNU General Public
License, which was designed for utility programs. This license, the GNU Library General Public
License, applies to certain designated libraries. This license is quite different from the ordinary
one; be sure to read it in full, and don't assume that anything in it is the same as in the ordinary
license.
The reason we have a separate public license for some libraries is that they blur the distinction
we usually make between modifying or adding to a program and simply using it. Linking a
program with a library, without changing the library, is in some sense simply using the library,
and is analogous to running a utility program or application program. However, in a textual and
legal sense, the linked executable is a combined work, a derivative of the original library, and
the ordinary General Public License treats it as such.
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