MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE
MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1.1
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright © 1989, 1991 Free Software
Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and
distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not
allowed.
1. Preamble
2. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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 Library General Public
License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are
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make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and
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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
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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
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We protect your rights with two steps:
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legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.
Also, for each author's protection and
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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
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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
0. 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,
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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.
1. 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.
2. 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:
1. You must
cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed
the files and the date of any change.
2. 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.
3. If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
These requirements apply to the
modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived
from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate
works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the
same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the
distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose
permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each
and every part regardless of who wrote it.
Thus, it is not the intent of this
section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you;
rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of
derivative or collective works based on the Program.
In addition, mere aggregation of
another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on
the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the
other work under the scope of this License.
3. You may
copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in
object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above
provided that you also do one of the following:
ii.
Accompany it with the complete corresponding
machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
or,
iii. Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
iv. Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to
copy the source along with the object code.
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provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense
or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights
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copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy
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Program.
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to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other
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permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation,
write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this.
Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of
all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of
software generally.
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