Cisco Cisco IPICS Release 2.1 Licensing Information

software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.

 

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, 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 or use pieces of it in new

free programs; and that you know you can do these things.

 

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to

surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the

software, or if you modify it.

 

For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, 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 show

them these terms so they know their rights.

 

We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you

legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.

 

Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no

warranty for this free software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to

know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the

original authors' reputations.

 

Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that

redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To

prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.

 

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

 

0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying

it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such

program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under

copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications

and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term

"modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".

 

Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its

scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its

contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).

Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.

 

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium,

provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and

disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and

give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.