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libraries,andisquitedifferentfromtheordinaryGeneralPublicLicense.Weusethislicensefor

certainlibrariesinordertopermitlinkingthoselibrariesintonon-freeprograms.

Whenaprogramislinkedwithalibrary,whetherstaticallyorusingasharedlibrary,thecombination

ofthetwoislegallyspeakingacombinedwork,aderivativeoftheoriginallibrary.Theordinary

GeneralPublicLicensethereforepermitssuchlinkingonlyiftheentirecombinationfitsitscriteriaof

freedom.TheLesserGeneralPublicLicensepermitsmorelaxcriteriaforlinkingothercodewiththe

library.

Wecallthislicensethe"Lesser"GeneralPublicLicensebecauseitdoesLesstoprotecttheuser's

freedomthantheordinaryGeneralPublicLicense.Italsoprovidesotherfreesoftwaredevelopers

Lessofanadvantageovercompetingnon-freeprograms.Thesedisadvantagesarethereasonwe

usetheordinaryGeneralPublicLicenseformanylibraries.However,theLesserlicenseprovides

advantagesincertainspecialcircumstances.

Forexample,onrareoccasions,theremaybeaspecialneedtoencouragethewidestpossibleuse

ofacertainlibrary,sothatitbecomesade-factostandard.Toachievethis,non-freeprogramsmust

beallowedtousethelibrary.Amorefrequentcaseisthatafreelibrarydoesthesamejobaswidely

usednon-freelibraries.Inthiscase,thereislittletogainbylimitingthefreelibrarytofreesoftware

only,soweusetheLesserGeneralPublicLicense.

Inothercases,permissiontouseaparticularlibraryinnon-freeprogramsenablesagreaternumber

ofpeopletousealargebodyoffreesoftware.Forexample,permissiontousetheGNUCLibraryin

non-freeprogramsenablesmanymorepeopletousethewholeGNUoperatingsystem,aswellas

itsvariant,theGNU/Linuxoperatingsystem.

AlthoughtheLesserGeneralPublicLicenseisLessprotectiveoftheusers'freedom,itdoesensure

thattheuserofaprogramthatislinkedwiththeLibraryhasthefreedomandthewherewithaltorun

thatprogramusingamodifiedversionoftheLibrary.Theprecisetermsandconditionsforcopying,

distributionandmodificationfollow.Paycloseattentiontothedifferencebetweena"workbasedon

thelibrary"anda"workthatusesthelibrary".Theformercontainscodederivedfromthelibrary,

whereasthelattermustbecombinedwiththelibraryinordertorun.

TERMSANDCONDITIONSFORCOPYING,DISTRIBUTIONANDMODIFICATION

0.ThisLicenseAgreementappliestoanysoftwarelibraryorotherprogramwhichcontainsanotice

placedbythecopyrightholderorotherauthorizedpartysayingitmaybedistributedundertheterms

ofthisLesserGeneralPublicLicense(alsocalled"thisLicense").Eachlicenseeisaddressedas

"you".

A"library"meansacollectionofsoftwarefunctionsand/ordatapreparedsoastobeconveniently

linkedwithapplicationprograms(whichusesomeofthosefunctionsanddata)toformexecutables.

The"Library",below,referstoanysuchsoftwarelibraryorworkwhichhasbeendistributedunder

theseterms.A"workbasedontheLibrary"meanseithertheLibraryoranyderivativeworkunder

modificationsand/ortranslatedstraightforwardlyintoanotherlanguage.(Hereinafter,translationis

includedwithoutlimitationintheterm"modification".)

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