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Third Party Copyrights and License Terms
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.
2.3.2
LGPL licensed Software
Related Software or Software parts:
- GNU C Library (libc)
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
- Pango
http://www.pango.org/
- GTK+ Project
http://www.gtk.org/
- DirectFB
http://directfb.org/
- E2fsprogs (Ext2/3/4 Filesystem Utilities)
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
- Cairo (2D graphics library)
http://cairographics.org/
- Libexif (C EXIF library)
http://libexif.sourceforge.net/
- FFmpeg
http://www.ffmpeg.org/
- libgcc
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/libgcc.html
License Text:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Bos-
ton, 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 fi rst 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.
