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GNU LGPL

This product includes the open source software programs which apply the

GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2 or later version ("LGPL Pro-

grams"). We provide the source code of the LGPL Programs until ve (5) years

after the discontinuation of this product.

These LGPL Programs are WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the im-

plied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR-

POSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2 is as follows. You also can

see the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2 at http://www.gnu.org/

licenses/.

GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2.1, February 1999

Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and

distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not al-

lowed.

[This is the rst released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts as the suc-

cessor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version num-

ber 2.1.]

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to

share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public Licenses are intend-

ed to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make

sure the software is free for all its users.

This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to some specially

designated software packages--typically libraries--of the Free Software Foun-

<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 con-

sider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library.

If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License

instead of this License.