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author | Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> | 2009-09-14 12:32:44 +0200 |
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committer | Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> | 2009-09-14 12:32:44 +0200 |
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diff --git a/doc/lgpl.texi b/doc/lgpl.texi new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c29a6fb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/lgpl.texi @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +@c The GNU Lesser General Public License. +@center Version 3, 29 June 2007 + +@c This file is intended to be included within another document, +@c hence no sectioning command or @node. + +@display +Copyright @copyright{} 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @url{http://fsf.org/} + +Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this +license document, but changing it is not allowed. +@end display + +This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates +the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public +License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below. + +@enumerate 0 +@item Additional Definitions. + +As used herein, ``this License'' refers to version 3 of the GNU Lesser +General Public License, and the ``GNU GPL'' refers to version 3 of the GNU +General Public License. + +``The Library'' refers to a covered work governed by this License, +other than an Application or a Combined Work as defined below. + +An ``Application'' is any work that makes use of an interface provided +by the Library, but which is not otherwise based on the Library. +Defining a subclass of a class defined by the Library is deemed a mode +of using an interface provided by the Library. + +A ``Combined Work'' is a work produced by combining or linking an +Application with the Library. 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