Cisco Cisco IPICS Release 2.1 Licensing Information

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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.

 

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