[2236] | 1 | Preamble
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| 2 | ========
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| 3 |
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| 4 | The licensing of the wxWidgets library is intended to protect the wxWidgets
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| 5 | library, its developers, and its users, so that the considerable investment
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| 6 | it represents is not abused.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | Under the terms of the wxWidgets Licence, you as a user are not
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| 9 | obliged to distribute wxWidgets source code with your products, if you
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| 10 | distribute these products in binary form. However, you are prevented from
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| 11 | restricting use of the library in source code form, or denying others the
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| 12 | rights to use or distribute wxWidgets library source code in the way
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| 13 | intended.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | The wxWidgets Licence establishes the copyright for the code and related
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| 16 | material, and it gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or
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| 17 | modify the library. It also asserts that no warranty is given by the authors
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| 18 | for this or derived code.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | The core distribution of the wxWidgets library contains files
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| 21 | under two different licences:
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| 23 | - Most files are distributed under the GNU Library General Public
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| 24 | Licence, version 2, with the special exception that you may create and
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| 25 | distribute object code versions built from the source code or modified
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| 26 | versions of it (even if these modified versions include code under a
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| 27 | different licence), and distribute such binaries under your own
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| 28 | terms.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | - Most core wxWidgets manuals are made available under the "wxWidgets
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| 31 | Free Documentation Licence", which allows you to distribute modified
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| 32 | versions of the manuals, such as versions documenting any modifications
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| 33 | made by you in your version of the library. However, you may not restrict
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| 34 | any third party from reincorporating your changes into the original
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| 35 | manuals.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | Other relevant files:
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| 39 | - licence.txt: a statement that the wxWidgets library is
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| 40 | covered by the GNU Library General Public Licence, with an
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| 41 | exception notice for binary distribution.
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| 42 |
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| 43 | - licendoc.txt: the wxWidgets Documentation Licence.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | - lgpl.txt: the text of the GNU Library General Public Licence.
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| 47 | - gpl.txt: the text of the GNU General Public Licence, which is
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| 48 | referenced by the LGPL.
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| 49 |
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