1 | UNMODIFIED BINARY DISTRIBUTION LICENCE
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4 | PREAMBLE
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6 | The GNU General Public License provides a legal guarantee that
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7 | software covered by it remains free (in the sense of freedom, not
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8 | price). It achieves this guarantee by imposing obligations on anyone
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9 | who chooses to distribute the software.
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11 | Some of these obligations may be seen as unnecessarily burdensome. In
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12 | particular, when the source code for the software is already publicly
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13 | and freely available, there is minimal value in imposing upon each
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14 | distributor the obligation to provide the complete source code (or an
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15 | equivalent written offer to provide the complete source code).
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17 | This Licence allows for the distribution of unmodified binaries built
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18 | from publicly available source code, without imposing the obligations
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19 | of the GNU General Public License upon anyone who chooses to
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20 | distribute only the unmodified binaries built from that source code.
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22 | The extra permissions granted by this Licence apply only to unmodified
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23 | binaries built from source code which has already been made available
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24 | to the public in accordance with the terms of the GNU General Public
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25 | Licence. Nothing in this Licence allows for the creation of
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26 | closed-source modified versions of the Program. Any modified versions
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27 | of the Program are subject to the usual terms and conditions of the
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28 | GNU General Public License.
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31 | TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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33 | This Licence applies to any Program or other work which contains a
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34 | notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
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35 | under the terms of this Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence. All
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36 | terms used in the text of this Licence are to be interpreted as they
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37 | are used in version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published
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38 | by the Free Software Foundation.
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40 | If you have made this Program available to the public in both source
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41 | code and executable form in accordance with the terms of the GNU
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42 | General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
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43 | either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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44 | version, then you are hereby granted an additional permission to use,
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45 | copy, and distribute the unmodified executable form of this Program
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46 | (the "Unmodified Binary") without restriction, including the right to
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47 | permit persons to whom the Unmodified Binary is furnished to do
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48 | likewise, subject to the following conditions:
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50 | - when started running, the Program must display an announcement which
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51 | includes the details of your existing publication of the Program
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52 | made in accordance with the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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53 | For example, the Program could display the URL of the publicly
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54 | available source code from which the Unmodified Binary was built.
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55 |
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56 | - when exercising your right to grant permissions under this Licence,
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57 | you do not need to refer directly to the text of this Licence, but
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58 | you may not grant permissions beyond those granted to you by this
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59 | Licence.
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