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Samsung SL-M2020W-XAA User Manual

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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 Library 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.