LG 42LW5500 Owner's Manual

Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Founda-
tion, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 
02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy 
and distribute verbatim copies of this license docu-
ment, but changing it is not allowed.

[This is the first released version of the Lesser 
GPL. It also counts as the successor of the GNU 
Library Public License, version 2, hence the ver-
sion number 2.1.]

Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to 
take away your freedom to share and change it. 
By contrast, the GNU General Public Licenses are 
intended to guarantee your freedom to share and 
change free software--to make sure the software is 
free for all its users. 

This license, the Lesser General Public License, 
applies to some specially designated software 
packages--typically libraries--of the Free Software 
Foundation and other authors who decide to use 
it. You can use it too, but we suggest you first think 
carefully about whether this license or the ordinary 
General Public License is the better strategy to 
use in any particular case, based on the explana-
tions below. 

When we speak of free software, we are referring 
to freedom of use, not price. Our General Public 
Licenses are designed to make sure that you have 
the freedom to distribute 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 and use pieces of it 
in new free programs; and that you are informed 
that you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to make restric-
tions that forbid distributors to deny you these 
rights or to ask you to surrender these rights. 
These restrictions translate to certain responsibili-
ties for you if you distribute copies of the library or 
if you modify it. 

For example, if you distribute copies of the library, 

whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the 
recipients all the rights that we gave you. You 
must make sure that they, too, receive or can get 
the source code. If you link other code with the 
library, you must provide complete object files to 
the recipients, so that they can relink them with the 
library after making changes to the library and rec-
ompiling it. And you must show them these terms 
so they know their rights. 

We protect your rights with a two-step method: (1) 
we copyright the library, and (2) we offer you this 
license, which gives you legal permission to copy, 
distribute and/or modify the library. 

To protect each distributor, we want to make it very 
clear that there is no warranty for the free library. 
Also, if the library is modified by someone else and 
passed on, the recipients should know that what 
they have is not the original version, so that the 
original author's reputation will not be affected by 
problems that might be introduced by others. 

Finally, software patents pose a constant threat 
to the existence of any free program. We wish 
to make sure that a company cannot effectively 
restrict the users of a free program by obtaining a 
restrictive license from a patent holder. Therefore, 
we insist that any patent license obtained for a ver-
sion of the library must be consistent with the full 
freedom of use specified in this license. 

Most GNU software, including some libraries, 
is covered by the ordinary GNU General Public 
License. This license, the GNU Lesser General 
Public License, applies to certain designated 
libraries, and is quite different from the ordinary 
General Public License. We use this license for 
certain libraries in order to permit linking those 
libraries into non-free programs. 

When a program is linked with a library, whether 
statically or using a shared library, the combination 
of the two is legally speaking a combined work, 
a derivative of the original library. The ordinary 
General Public License therefore permits such 
linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria 
of freedom. The Lesser General Public License 
permits more lax criteria for linking other code with 
the library. 

We call this license the "Lesser" General Public