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002: * JCommon : a free general purpose class library for the Java(tm) platform
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026: *
027: * -------------
028: * Licences.java
029: * -------------
030: * (C) Copyright 2001-2004, by Object Refinery Limited.
031: *
032: * Original Author: David Gilbert (for Object Refinery Limited);
033: * Contributor(s): -;
034: *
035: * $Id: Licences.java,v 1.4 2005/11/16 15:58:41 taqua Exp $
036: *
037: * Changes
038: * -------
039: * 26-Nov-2001 : Version 1 (DG);
040: * 29-Jan-2002 : Appended the instructions to the end of the GNU LGPL and GPL to comply with
041: * GNU requirements (DG);
042: * 28-Feb-2002 : Moved to package com.jrefinery.ui.about (DG);
043: * 08-Oct-2002 : Fixed errors reported by Checkstyle (DG);
044: *
045: */
046:
047: package org.jfree.ui.about;
048:
049: /**
050: * Contains the full texts of the GNU General Public Licence and the GNU Lesser General Public
051: * Licence.
052: * <P>
053: * These are used in the presentation of a standard 'About' frame.
054: *
055: * @author David Gilbert
056: */
057: public class Licences {
058:
059: /** The GNU General Public Licence. */
060: public static final String GPL = "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\n"
061: + "\n"
062: + "Version 2, June 1991\n"
063: + "\n"
064: + "Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, "
065: + "MA 02139, USA. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this "
066: + "license document, but changing it is not allowed.\n"
067: + "\n"
068: + "Preamble\n"
069: + "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and "
070: + "change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your "
071: + "freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all "
072: + "its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software "
073: + "Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some "
074: + "other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public "
075: + "License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.\n"
076: + "\n"
077: + "When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General "
078: + "Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute "
079: + "copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive "
080: + "source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use "
081: + "pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things."
082: + "\n"
083: + "To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you "
084: + "these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to "
085: + "certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you "
086: + "modify it.\n"
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088: + "For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, "
089: + "you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that "
090: + "they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so "
091: + "they know their rights.\n"
092: + "\n"
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094: + "this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the "
095: + "software.\n"
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097: + "Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone "
098: + "understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the software is "
099: + "modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they "
100: + "have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect "
101: + "on the original authors' reputations.\n"
102: + "\n"
103: + "Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to "
104: + "avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent "
105: + "licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it "
106: + "clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at "
107: + "all.\n"
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110: + "\n"
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117: + "\"work based on the Program\" means either the Program or any derivative work under "
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119: + "either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. "
120: + "(Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "
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125: + "and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work "
126: + "based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether "
127: + "that is true depends on what the Program does.\n"
128: + "\n"
129: + "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you "
130: + "receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish "
131: + "on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact "
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138: + "\n"
139: + "2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus "
140: + "forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or "
141: + "work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these "
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145: + "changed the files and the date of any change.\n"
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147: + "b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part "
148: + "contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole "
149: + "at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.\n"
150: + "\n"
151: + "c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must "
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155: + "that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user "
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157: + "but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is "
158: + "not required to print an announcement.)\n"
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339: + "\n"
340: + "The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of "
341: + "the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be called something "
342: + "other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items"
343: + "--whatever suits your program.\n"
344: + "\n"
345: + "You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if "
346: + "any, to sign a \"copyright disclaimer\" for the program, if necessary. Here is a "
347: + "sample; alter the names:\n"
348: + "\n"
349: + "Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `Gnomovision' "
350: + "(which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.\n"
351: + "\n"
352: + "<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989\n"
353: + "Ty Coon, President of Vice\n"
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358: + "what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this "
359: + "License.\n";
360:
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