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  1. BISON GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  2. (Clarified 11 Feb 1988)
  3. Copyright (C) 1988 Richard M. Stallman
  4. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  5. of this license, but changing it is not allowed. You can also
  6. use this wording to make the terms for other programs.
  7. The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the
  8. mercy of those companies. By contrast, our general public license is
  9. intended to give everyone the right to share BISON. To make sure that
  10. you get the rights we want you to have, we need to make restrictions
  11. that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender
  12. the rights. Hence this license agreement.
  13. Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
  14. away copies of BISON, that you receive source code or else can get it
  15. if you want it, that you can change BISON or use pieces of it in new
  16. free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
  17. To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to
  18. deprive anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute
  19. copies of BISON, you must give the recipients all the rights that you
  20. have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
  21. source code. And you must tell them their rights.
  22. Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
  23. finds out that there is no warranty for BISON. If BISON is modified by
  24. someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what
  25. they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems introduced
  26. by others will not reflect on our reputation.
  27. Therefore we (Richard Stallman and the Free Software Fundation,
  28. Inc.) make the following terms which say what you must do to be
  29. allowed to distribute or change BISON.
  30. COPYING POLICIES
  31. 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of BISON source code as
  32. you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
  33. appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright notice "Copyright
  34. (C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc." (or with whatever year is
  35. appropriate); keep intact the notices on all files that refer
  36. to this License Agreement and to the absence of any warranty; and give
  37. any other recipients of the BISON program a copy of this License
  38. Agreement along with the program.
  39. 2. You may modify your copy or copies of BISON or any portion of it,
  40. and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of
  41. Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:
  42. a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
  43. that you changed the files and the date of any change; and
  44. b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
  45. that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of BISON or
  46. any part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to all third
  47. parties on terms identical to those contained in this License
  48. Agreement (except that you may choose to grant more extensive
  49. warranty protection to some or all third parties, at your
  50. option)
  51. c) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
  52. transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty
  53. protection in exchange for a fee.
  54. Mere aggregation of another unrelated program with this program (or its
  55. derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring
  56. the other program under the scope of these terms.
  57. 3. You may copy and distribute BISON (or a portion or derivative of it,
  58. under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
  59. Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
  60. a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
  61. source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
  62. Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
  63. b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
  64. years, to give any third party free (except for a nominal
  65. shipping charge) a complete machine-readable copy of the
  66. corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of
  67. Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
  68. c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the
  69. corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is
  70. allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
  71. received the program in object code or executable form alone.)
  72. For an executable file, complete source code means all the source code for
  73. all modules it contains; but, as a special exception, it need not include
  74. source code for modules which are standard libraries that accompany the
  75. operating system on which the executable file runs.
  76. 4. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer BISON
  77. except as expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt
  78. otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer BISON is void and
  79. your rights to use the program under this License agreement shall be
  80. automatically terminated. However, parties who have received computer
  81. software programs from you with this License Agreement will not have
  82. their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
  83. 5. If you wish to incorporate parts of GNU CC into other free programs
  84. whose distribution conditions are different, write to the Free Software
  85. Foundation at 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139. We have not yet worked
  86. out a simple rule that can be stated here, but we will often permit this.
  87. We will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all
  88. derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of
  89. software.
  90. Your comments and suggestions about our licensing policies and our
  91. software are welcome! Please contact the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
  92. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, or call (617) 876-3296.
  93. In other words, go ahead and share BISON, but don't try to stop
  94. anyone else from sharing it farther. Help stamp out software hoarding!
  95. NO WARRANTY
  96. BECAUSE BISON IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO
  97. WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE STATE LAW. EXCEPT
  98. WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC,
  99. RICHARD M. STALLMAN AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE BISON "AS IS" WITHOUT
  100. WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
  101. LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
  102. A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
  103. PERFORMANCE OF BISON IS WITH YOU. SHOULD BISON PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU
  104. ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
  105. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL RICHARD M.
  106. STALLMAN, THE FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC., AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY
  107. WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE BISON AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO
  108. YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER
  109. SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR
  110. INABILITY TO USE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA
  111. BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A
  112. FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS) BISON, EVEN
  113. IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR
  114. ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.