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diff --git a/doc/gpl.texi b/doc/gpl.texi index 978c40d..6b0b238 100644 --- a/doc/gpl.texi +++ b/doc/gpl.texi @@ -1,26 +1,33 @@ @node Copying, The GNU FDL, Local Storage, Top -@unnumbered GNU General Public License +@chapter The GNU General Public License + @center Version 3, 29 June 2007 -@c This file is intended to be included in another file. +@tex +%% unnumberedfootnote +%% Since`footnotezzz' uses `thisfootno', set it to nothing. +\global\let\thisfootno\ +\global\def\unnumberedfootnote{\footnotezzz}% +@end tex @display -Copyright @copyright{} 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @url{http://fsf.org/} +Copyright @copyright{} 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.@: @url{http://fsf.org/} +51 Franklin St., Floor 5, Boston, MA 02110-1335, USA -Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this -license document, but changing it is not allowed. +Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. @end display -@unnumberedsec Preamble +@heading Preamble +@cindex copyleft, and GPL The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom -to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains +to share and change all versions of a program---to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You @@ -67,6 +74,7 @@ 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. +@cindex patents, GPL version 3 and 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 @@ -77,15 +85,10 @@ assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free. The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow. -@iftex -@unnumberedsec TERMS AND CONDITIONS -@end iftex -@ifinfo -@center TERMS AND CONDITIONS -@end ifinfo +@heading TERMS AND CONDITIONS @enumerate 0 -@item Definitions. +@item @strong{Definitions.} ``This License'' refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License. @@ -125,7 +128,7 @@ work under this License, and how to view a copy of this License. If the interface presents a list of user commands or options, such as a menu, a prominent item in the list meets this criterion. -@item Source Code. +@item @strong{Source Code.} The ``source code'' for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. ``Object code'' means any non-source form @@ -166,7 +169,7 @@ regenerate automatically from other parts of the Corresponding Source. The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that same work. -@item Basic Permissions. +@item @strong{Basic Permissions.} All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated @@ -174,7 +177,9 @@ conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your -rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law. +rights of +@cindex fair use @emph{(see also} copyright@emph{)} +fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law. You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force. @@ -191,7 +196,7 @@ Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under the conditions stated below. Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10 makes it unnecessary. -@item Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law. +@item @strong{Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.} No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article @@ -207,7 +212,7 @@ operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technological measures. -@item Conveying Verbatim Copies. +@item @strong{Conveying Verbatim Copies.} You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and @@ -220,7 +225,7 @@ recipients a copy of this License along with the Program. You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee. -@item Conveying Modified Source Versions. +@item @strong{Conveying Modified Source Versions.} You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the @@ -264,7 +269,7 @@ beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate. -@item Conveying Non-Source Forms. +@item @strong{Conveying Non-Source Forms.} You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable @@ -312,6 +317,7 @@ obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements. @item +@cindex peer-to-peer Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided you inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding Source of the work are being offered to the general public at no charge under @@ -371,7 +377,7 @@ documented (and with an implementation available to the public in source code form), and must require no special password or key for unpacking, reading or copying. -@item Additional Terms. +@item @strong{Additional Terms.} ``Additional permissions'' are terms that supplement the terms of this License by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions. @@ -413,6 +419,7 @@ Limiting the use for publicity purposes of names of licensors or authors of the material; or @item +@cindex trademarks and/or trademark law Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or @@ -443,7 +450,7 @@ Additional terms, permissive or non-permissive, may be stated in the form of a separately written license, or stated as exceptions; the above requirements apply either way. -@item Termination. +@item @strong{Termination.} You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or @@ -471,8 +478,9 @@ this License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently reinstated, you do not qualify to receive new licenses for the same material under section 10. -@item Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies. +@item @strong{Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.} +@cindex peer-to-peer You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission @@ -482,7 +490,7 @@ modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so. -@item Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients. +@item @strong{Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients.} Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and @@ -507,7 +515,7 @@ rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it. -@item Patents. +@item @strong{Patents.} A ``contributor'' is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this License of the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The @@ -576,8 +584,11 @@ Nothing in this License shall be construed as excluding or limiting any implied license or other defenses to infringement that may otherwise be available to you under applicable patent law. -@item No Surrender of Others' Freedom. +@item @strong{No Surrender of Others' Freedom.} +@cindex GPL, use with GNU Affero General Public License +@cindex Affero General Public License (AGPL), GNU +@cindex GNU, GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot convey @@ -589,7 +600,7 @@ from those to whom you convey the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program. -@item Use with the GNU Affero General Public License. +@item @strong{Use with the GNU Affero General Public License.} Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed @@ -600,7 +611,7 @@ but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License, section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the combination as such. -@item Revised Versions of this License. +@item @strong{Revised Versions of this License.} The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU General Public License from time to time. Such new @@ -626,7 +637,7 @@ permissions. However, no additional obligations are imposed on any author or copyright holder as a result of your choosing to follow a later version. -@item Disclaimer of Warranty. +@item @strong{Disclaimer of Warranty.} THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT @@ -638,7 +649,7 @@ PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. -@item Limitation of Liability. +@item @strong{Limitation of Liability.} IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR @@ -650,7 +661,7 @@ LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. -@item Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16. +@item @strong{Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.} If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms, @@ -659,14 +670,13 @@ an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a copy of the Program in return for a fee. -@iftex +@end enumerate + @heading END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS -@end iftex -@ifinfo -@center END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS -@end ifinfo -@unnumberedsec How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs +@heading How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs + +@cindex development, applying GPL If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these @@ -676,6 +686,7 @@ To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the ``copyright'' line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. + @smallexample @var{one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.} Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{name of author} @@ -701,8 +712,10 @@ notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode: @smallexample @var{program} Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{name of author} -This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type @samp{show w}. -This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type @samp{show c} for details. +This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; +for details type @samp{show w}. This is free software, +and you are welcome to redistribute it under +certain conditions; type @samp{show c} for details. @end smallexample The hypothetical commands @samp{show w} and @samp{show c} should show @@ -721,5 +734,3 @@ 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. But first, please read @url{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html}. - -@end enumerate |