Cisco Cisco Prime Home 5.0 Informations sur les licences

this license or the ordinary General Public License is the better      

strategy to use in any particular case, based on the explanations below.      

     

 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom of use,      

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 and use pieces of      

it in new free programs; and that you are informed that you can do      

these things.      

     

 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid      

distributors to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender these      

rights.  These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for      

you if you distribute copies of the library or if you modify it.      

     

 For example, if you distribute copies of the library, whether gratis      

or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that we gave      

you.  You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source      

code.  If you link other code with the library, you must provide      

complete object files to the recipients, so that they can relink them      

with the library after making changes to the library and recompiling      

it.  And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.      

     

 We protect your rights with a two-step method: (1) we copyright the      

library, and (2) we offer you this license, which gives you legal      

permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the library.      

     

 To protect each distributor, we want to make it very clear that      

there is no warranty for the free library.  Also, if the library is      

modified by someone else and passed on, the recipients should know      

that what they have is not the original version, so that the original      

author's reputation will not be affected by problems that might be      

introduced by others.      

     

 Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the existence of      

any free program.  We wish to make sure that a company cannot      

effectively restrict the users of a free program by obtaining a      

restrictive license from a patent holder.  Therefore, we insist that      

any patent license obtained for a version of the library must be      

consistent with the full freedom of use specified in this license.      

     

 Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the      

ordinary GNU General Public License.  This license, the GNU Lesser      

General Public License, applies to certain designated libraries, and      

is quite different from the ordinary General Public License.  We use      

this license for certain libraries in order to permit linking those      

libraries into non-free programs.