Gnu Lesser General Public License; Preamble - Sony Ipela NSR Series Installation Manual

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
programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright
disclaimer" 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, President of Vice
This General Public License does not permit
incorporating your program into proprietary programs.If
your program 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.
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GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

GNU LESSER GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-
1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim
copies of this license document, but changing it is not
allowed.
[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.]

Preamble

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