Cisco Cisco IPICS Release 2.1 Licensing Information

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             Open Source Used In  Cisco Instant Connect 4.10(1)                                                                                                                                   
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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                
them 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 prevent others from denying you                
these rights or asking you to surrender the rights.  Therefore, you have                
certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if                
you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.                
               
 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether                
gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same                
freedoms that you received.  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.                
               
 Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps:                
(1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License                
giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.                
               
 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.