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[This is the first released version of the library GPL. It is
numbered 2 because it goes with version 2 of the ordinary GPL.]
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General
Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free
for all its users.
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
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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
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To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the
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For example, if you distribute copies of the library, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
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Our method of protecting your rights has two steps: (1) copyright the library, and (2) offer you this license which gives you
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Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that companies distrib-
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To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
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