Gnu Lesser General Public License (Lgpl) - Gigaset SL910 Manual

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) <year> <name
of author>
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WAR-
RANTY; for details type `show w'. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; type `show c' for details.
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should show the appropriate parts of the General Public
License. Of course, the commands you use may be called
something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could
even be mouse-clicks or menu items – whatever suits
your program.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a pro-
grammer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disc-
laimer" for the program, if necessary.
Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest
in the program `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at
compilers) written by James Hacker.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989, Ty Coon, Presi-
dent of Vice
This General Public License does not permit incorpora-
ting your program into proprietary programs. If your pro-
gram is a subroutine library, you may consider it more
useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser
General Public License instead of this License.
GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL)
Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim
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[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.]
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