Qlogic SANbox 6142, User Manual

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1 – Introduction
General Public License
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The following General Public License has been reproduced with permission from:
GNU General Public License
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Copyright 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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1.8.1
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share
and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee
your freedom to share and change free software - to make sure the software is free
for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
Foundation’s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it.
(Some Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General
Public License instead). You can apply it to your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General
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copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive
source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use
pieces of it in new programs; and that you know you can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you
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certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify
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For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee,
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We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you
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Also, for each author’s protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone
understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the software is modified