Software license agreement – Cisco LINKSYS WMP600N User Manual

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Appendix G

Software License Agreement

Wireless-N PCI Adapter with Dual-Band

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.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the

software, and (2) 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.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND
MODIFICATION

This License applies to any program or other work

which contains a notice placed by the copyright

holder saying it may be distributed under the terms

of this General Public License. The “Program”, below,

refers to any such program or work, and a “work

based on the Program” means either the Program

or any derivative work under copyright law: that is

to say, a work containing the Program or a portion

of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/

or translated into another language. (Hereinafter,

translation is included without limitation in the term

“modification”.) Each licensee is addressed as “you”.

Activities other than copying, distribution and

modification are not covered by this License; they

are outside its scope. The act of running the Program

is not restricted, and the output from the Program is

covered only if its contents constitute a work based on

the Program (independent of having been made by

running the Program). Whether that is true depends

on what the Program does.
You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the

Program’s source code as you receive it, in any medium,

provided that you conspicuously and appropriately

publish on each copy an appropriate copyright

notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the

notices that refer to this License and to the absence

of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the

Program a copy of this License along with the Program.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring

a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty

protection in exchange for a fee.
You may modify your copy or copies of the Program

or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the

Program, and copy and distribute such modifications

or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided

that you also meet all of these conditions:

You must cause the modified files to carry

prominent notices stating that you changed the

files and the date of any change.
You must cause any work that you distribute or

publish, that in whole or in part contains or is

derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be

licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties

under the terms of this License.