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General
guidelines for using GNUPro Toolkit
These
guidelines are intended to help you understand what you are allowed to
do with this software.
You are free to use, copy,
modify, and redistribute the files contained in this distribution subject
to certain terms and conditions. You may use them in commercial and non-commercial
applications alike. You may make a profit from doing so. You do not need
to pay any royalties. The terms and conditions imposed on you all take
one of the following forms.
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You may be required to preserve
or reproduce the existing copyright notice and/or licensing terms.
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You may be required to give
appropriate credit to third parties for the role they played in helping
to create the software.
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You may be required to agree
not use the name of third parties in advertising or publicity without their
permission.
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You may be required to agree
not to hold third parties liable for loss or damages caused by your use
of the software.
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You may be required to give
parties to which you distribute verbatim copies or derivatives works the
corresponding source code as well as permission for them to redistribute
what you provide to them free from any additional encumbrances.
These guidelines are not intended
as a legal statement. For source files, the precise legal statement of
what you can and can't do is in the licenses for the individual source
files. For files in the binary distribution what you can and can't do is
specified in the licenses to the source files from which the binary files
derive.
These guidelines are also
only intended to help you understand what you can do with this software
as far as your rights might be limited under copyright law. Other laws
dealing with patents, encryption, export to certain foreign nations, and
so on, could, in some circumstances, also limit your rights.
Cygnus doesn't encumber the
components of this distribution with any additional restrictions beyond
those contained in the original software
Any works created by Cygnus
are distributed under the same terms as the components to which they are
a part.
Works created by Cygnus that
standalone are typically distributed under the GNU General Public License.
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