Cisco Cisco IPICS Dispatch Console Licensing Information

                

 For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains                 

that there is no warranty for this free software.  For both users' and                 

authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as                 

changed, so that their problems will not be attributed erroneously to                 

authors of previous versions.                 

                

 Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run                 

modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer                 

can do so.  This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of                 

protecting users' freedom to change the software.  The systematic                 

pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to                 

use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable.  Therefore, we                 

have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those                 

products.  If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we                 

stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions                 

of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.                 

                

 Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents.                 

States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of                 

software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to                 

avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could                 

make it effectively proprietary.  To prevent this, the GPL assures that                 

patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.                 

                

 The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and                 

modification follow.                 

                

                      TERMS AND CONDITIONS                 

                

 0. Definitions.                 

                

 "This License" refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.                 

                

 "Copyright" also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of                 

works, such as semiconductor masks.                 

                

 "The Program" refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this                 

License.  Each licensee is addressed as "you".  "Licensees" and                 

"recipients" may be individuals or organizations.                 

                

 To "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work                 

in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an                 

exact copy.  The resulting work is called a "modified version" of the                 

earlier work or a work "based on" the earlier work.                 

                

 A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based                 

on the Program.