From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 15:30:01 GMT
At the bottom of the license agreement for AbiWord (Windows
installer) is a piece of texts I presume should be removed:
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the
greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is
to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and
change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It
is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most
effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file
should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to
where the full notice is found.
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of
what it does.> Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite
330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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) 19yy name of author
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for
details type `show w'. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type
`show c' for details.
The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show
the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of
course, the commands you use may be called something other
than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks
or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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 Public
License instead of this License.
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer
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