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[Pspp-cvs] Changes to pspp/doc/license.texi
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
[Pspp-cvs] Changes to pspp/doc/license.texi |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:39:29 -0400 |
Index: pspp/doc/license.texi
diff -u pspp/doc/license.texi:1.2 pspp/doc/license.texi:1.3
--- pspp/doc/license.texi:1.2 Sun Jan 9 00:47:44 2005
+++ pspp/doc/license.texi Sat Apr 16 01:39:25 2005
@@ -5,38 +5,31 @@
@cindex rights, your
@cindex obligations, your
address@hidden Free Software Foundation
address@hidden GNU General Public License
address@hidden General Public License
address@hidden GPL
address@hidden distribution
address@hidden redistribution
-Most of PSPP is distributed under the GNU General Public
-License. The General Public License says, in effect, that you may
-modify and distribute PSPP as you like, as long as you grant the
-same rights to others. It also states that you must provide source code
-when you distribute PSPP, or, if you obtained PSPP
-source code from an anonymous ftp site, give out the name of that site.
+PSPP is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are
+restrictions on its distribution, but these restrictions are designed
+to permit everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do.
+What is not allowed is to try to prevent others from further sharing
+any version of this program that they might get from you.
-The General Public License is given in full in the source distribution
-as file @file{COPYING}. In Debian GNU/Linux, this file is also
-available as file @file{/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2}.
+Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
+away copies of PSPP, that you receive source code or else can get it
+if you want it, that you can change these programs or use pieces of
+them in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
-To quote the GPL itself:
+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 PSPP, 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.
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-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
-Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
-option) any later version.
+Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone finds
+out that there is no warranty for PSPP. If these programs are
+modified by someone else and passed on, we want their 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.
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-General Public License for more details.
+The precise conditions of the licenses for PSPP are found in the
+General Public Licenses that accompany them. This manual specifically
+is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (@pxref{GNU Free
+Documentation License}).
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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