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GNU LESSER GENERAL

PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2.1, February 1999

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

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 Lesser General Public License, applies

to some specially designated software packages--

typically libraries--of the Free Software Foundation and

other authors who decide to use it. You can use it too, but

we suggest you first think carefully about whether this

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explanations below.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to

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To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that

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We protect your rights with a two-step method: (1) we

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To protect each distributor, we want to make it very clear

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Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the

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license.

Most GNU software, including some libraries, is

covered by the ordinary GNU General Public License.

This license, the GNU Lesser General Public License,

applies to certain designated libraries, and is quite

different from the ordinary General Public License. We

use this license for certain libraries in order to permit

linking those libraries into non-free programs.

When a program is linked with a library, whether

statically or using a shared library, the combination of

the two is legally speaking a combined work, a

derivative of the original library. The ordinary General

Public License therefore permits such linking only if the

entire combination fits its criteria of freedom. The

Lesser General Public License permits more lax criteria

for linking other code with

the library.

We call this license the "Lesser" General Public License

because it does Less to protect the user's freedom than

the ordinary General Public License. It also provides

other free software developers Less of an advantage over

competing non-free programs. These disadvantages are

the reason we use the ordinary General Public License

for many libraries. However, the Lesser license provides

advantages in certain special circumstances.

For example, on rare occasions, there may be a special

need to encourage the widest possible use of a certain

library, so that it becomes a de-facto standard. To

achieve this, non-free programs must be allowed to use