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Asus DSL-N66U User Manual

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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 () 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.