Asus Eee PC 900/Linux Manuale d'uso

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ASUS Eee PC

A-17

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your

freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General

Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and

change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its

users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free

Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose

authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation

software is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License

instead.) You can apply it to 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 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.

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