Annotation of /alx-src/trunk/kernel26-alx/linux/COPYING


   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
 services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
 of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
 Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
 Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
 kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.

 Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
 is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
 v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.

			Linus Torvalds

----------------------------------------

		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
		       Version 2, June 1991

 Copyright (C) 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.

			    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 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
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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
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    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

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Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:

    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
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    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:

  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
  Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
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1	niro	628
2			NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel
3			services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
4			of the kernel, and does not fall under the heading of "derived work".
5			Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
6			Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
7			kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
8
9			Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
10			is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
11			v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
12
13			Linus Torvalds
14
15			----------------------------------------
16
17			GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
18			Version 2, June 1991
19
20			Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
21			59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
22			Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
23			of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
24
25			Preamble
26
27			The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
28			freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
29			License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
30			software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
31			General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
32			Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
33			using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
34			the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
35			your programs, too.
36
37			When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
38			price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
39			have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
40			this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
41			if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
42			in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
43
44			To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
45			anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
46			These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
47			distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
48
49			For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
50			gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
51			you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
52			source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
53			rights.
54
55			We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
56			(2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
57			distribute and/or modify the software.
58
59			Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
60			that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
61			software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
62			want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
63			that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
64			authors' reputations.
65
66			Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
67			patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
68			program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
69			program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
70			patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
71
72			The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
73			modification follow.
74
75			GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
76			TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
77
78			0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
79			a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
80			under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
81			refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
82			means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
83			that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
84			either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
85			language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
86			the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
87
88			Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
89			covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
90			running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
91			is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
92			Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
93			Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
94
95			1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
96			source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
97			conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
98			copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
99			notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
100			and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
101			along with the Program.
102
103			You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
104			you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
105
106			2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
107			of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
108			distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
109			above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
110
111			a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
112			stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
113
114			b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
115			whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
116			part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
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118
119			c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
120			when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
121			interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
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124			a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
125			these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
126			License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
127			does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
128			the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
129
130			These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
131			identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
132			and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
133			themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
134			sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
135			distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
136			on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
137			this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
138			entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
139
140			Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
141			your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
142			exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
143			collective works based on the Program.
144
145			In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
146			with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
147			a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
148			the scope of this License.
149
150			3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
151			under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
152			Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
153
154			a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
155			source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
156			1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
157
158			b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
159			years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
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163			customarily used for software interchange; or,
164
165			c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
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171			The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
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175			control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
176			special exception, the source code distributed need not include
177			anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
178			form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
179			operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
180			itself accompanies the executable.
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182			If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
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185			distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
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187
188			4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
189			except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
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192			However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
193			this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
194			parties remain in full compliance.
195
196			5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
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198			distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
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203			the Program or works based on it.
204
205			6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
206			Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
207			original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
208			these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
209			restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
210			You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
211			this License.
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213			7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
214			infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
215			conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
216			otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
217			excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
218			distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
219			License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
220			may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
221			license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
222			all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
223			the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
224			refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
225
226			If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
227			any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
228			apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
229			circumstances.
230
231			It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
232			patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
233			such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
234			integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
235			implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
236			generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
237			through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
238			system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
239			to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
240			impose that choice.
241
242			This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
243			be a consequence of the rest of this License.
244
245			8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
246			certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
247			original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
248			may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
249			those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
250			countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
251			the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
252
253			9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
254			of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
255			be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
256			address new problems or concerns.
257
258			Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
259			specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
260			later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
261			either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
262			Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
263			this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
264			Foundation.
265
266			10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
267			programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
268			to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
269			Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
270			make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
271			of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
272			of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
273
274			NO WARRANTY
275
276			11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
277			FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
278			OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
279			PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
280			OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
281			MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
282			TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
283			PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
284			REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
285
286			12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
287			WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
288			REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
289			INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
290			OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
291			TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
292			YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
293			PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
294			POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
295
296			END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
297
298			How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
299
300			If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
301			possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
302			free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
303
304			To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
305			to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
306			convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
307			the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
308
309			<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
310			Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
311
312			This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
313			it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
314			the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
315			(at your option) any later version.
316
317			This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
318			but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
319			MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
320			GNU General Public License for more details.
321
322			You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
323			along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
324			Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
325
326
327			Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
328
329			If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
330			when it starts in an interactive mode:
331
332			Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
333			Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
334			This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
335			under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
336
337			The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
338			parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
339			be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
340			mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
341
342			You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
343			school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
344			necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
345
346			Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
347			`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
348
349			<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
350			Ty Coon, President of Vice
351
352			This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
353			proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
354			consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
355			library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
356			Public License instead of this License.