Warranty Information 40items--whatever suits your program. You should also get youremployer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, tosign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if necessary. Hereis a sample; alter the names:Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest inthe program ‘Gnomovision’ (which makes passes atcompilers) written by James Hacker. Coon>, 1 April 1989 Ty Coon, President of ViceThis General Public License does not permit incorporating yourprogram into proprietary programs. If your program is asubroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permitlinking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what youwant to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead ofthis License.GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSEVersion 2.1, February 1999 Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 FreeSoftware Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy anddistribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changingit is not allowed.[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also countsas the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2,hence the version number 2.1.]PreambleThe licenses for most software are designed to take away yourfreedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU GeneralPublic Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to shareand change free software--to make sure the software is free forall its users.This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to somespecially designated software packages-- typically libraries--ofthe Free Software Foundation and other authors who decide touse it. You can use it too, but we suggest you first think carefullyabout whether this license or the ordinary General Public Licenseis the better strategy to use in any particular case, based on theexplanations below. When we speak of free software, we arereferring to freedom of use, not price. Our General PublicLicenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom todistribute copies of free software (and charge for this service ifyou wish); that you receive source code or can get it if you wantit; that you can change the software and use pieces of it in newfree programs; and that you are informed that you can do thesethings. To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions thatforbid distributors to deny you these rights or to ask you tosurrender these rights. These restrictions translate to certainresponsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the library or ifyou modify it. For example, if you distribute copies of the library,whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the
