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5  @cindex rights, your  @cindex rights, your
6  @cindex obligations, your  @cindex obligations, your
7    
8  @cindex Free Software Foundation  PSPP is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are
9  @cindex GNU General Public License  restrictions on its distribution, but these restrictions are designed
10  @cindex General Public License  to permit everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do.
11  @cindex GPL  What is not allowed is to try to prevent others from further sharing
12  @cindex distribution  any version of this program that they might get from you.
13  @cindex redistribution  
14  Most of PSPP is distributed under the GNU General Public  Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
15  License.  The General Public License says, in effect, that you may  away copies of PSPP, that you receive source code or else can get it
16  modify and distribute PSPP as you like, as long as you grant the  if you want it, that you can change these programs or use pieces of
17  same rights to others.  It also states that you must provide source code  them in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
18  when you distribute PSPP, or, if you obtained PSPP  
19  source code from an anonymous ftp site, give out the name of that site.  To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to
20    deprive anyone else of these rights.  For example, if you distribute
21  The General Public License is given in full in the source distribution  copies of PSPP, you must give the recipients all the rights that you
22  as file @file{COPYING}.  In Debian GNU/Linux, this file is also  have.  You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
23  available as file @file{/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2}.  source code.  And you must tell them their rights.
24    
25  To quote the GPL itself:  Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone finds
26    out that there is no warranty for PSPP.  If these programs are
27  @quotation  modified by someone else and passed on, we want their recipients to
28  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it  know that what they have is not what we distributed, so that any
29  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the  problems introduced by others will not reflect on our reputation.
30  Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your  
31  option) any later version.  The precise conditions of the licenses for PSPP are found in the
32    General Public Licenses that accompany them.  This manual specifically
33  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but  is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (@pxref{GNU Free
34  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of  Documentation License}).
35  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  
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