Cisco Cisco IPICS Release 2.1 Licensing Information

   

 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.    

   

                   GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE    

  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,