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UNMODIFIED BINARY DISTRIBUTION LICENCE
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PREAMBLE
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The GNU General Public License provides a legal guarantee that
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software covered by it remains free (in the sense of freedom, not
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price). It achieves this guarantee by imposing obligations on anyone
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who chooses to distribute the software.
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Some of these obligations may be seen as unnecessarily burdensome. In
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particular, when the source code for the software is already publicly
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and freely available, there is minimal value in imposing upon each
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distributor the obligation to provide the complete source code (or an
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equivalent written offer to provide the complete source code).
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This Licence allows for the distribution of unmodified binaries built
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from publicly available source code, without imposing the obligations
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of the GNU General Public License upon anyone who chooses to
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distribute only the unmodified binaries built from that source code.
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The extra permissions granted by this Licence apply only to unmodified
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binaries built from source code which has already been made available
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to the public in accordance with the terms of the GNU General Public
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Licence. Nothing in this Licence allows for the creation of
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closed-source modified versions of the Program. Any modified versions
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of the Program are subject to the usual terms and conditions of the
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GNU General Public License.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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This Licence applies to any Program or other work which contains a
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notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
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under the terms of this Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence. All
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terms used in the text of this Licence are to be interpreted as they
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are used in version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published
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by the Free Software Foundation.
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If you have made this Program available to the public in both source
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code and executable form in accordance with the terms of the GNU
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General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
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either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version, then you are hereby granted an additional permission to use,
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copy, and distribute the unmodified executable form of this Program
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(the "Unmodified Binary") without restriction, including the right to
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permit persons to whom the Unmodified Binary is furnished to do
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likewise, subject to the following conditions:
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- when started running, the Program must display an announcement which
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includes the details of your existing publication of the Program
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made in accordance with the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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For example, the Program could display the URL of the publicly
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available source code from which the Unmodified Binary was built.
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- when exercising your right to grant permissions under this Licence,
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you do not need to refer directly to the text of this Licence, but
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you may not grant permissions beyond those granted to you by this
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Licence.
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