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