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| author | Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net> | 2009-09-20 15:58:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Graham Percival <graham@percival-music.ca> | 2009-09-22 18:02:43 +0100 |
| commit | 363281646eab0c438c230bc5ff6627d185c2590c (patch) | |
| tree | 12eecf06dd512ae86b0d7d02b738ce6a72b8b39f /COPYING | |
| parent | 1e509bc1df009071308db5657c78b939a7d96276 (diff) | |
COPYING rewrite to clarify licensing.
* Text is closer to FSF guidelines and explicitly states that
Lilypond is released under GPLv2 only.
Diffstat (limited to 'COPYING')
| -rw-r--r-- | COPYING | 38 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ -If you want to redistribute LilyPond, you must comply with the GNU -General Public License (reproduced below). This license applies to -LilyPond with the following exceptions: - -- It does not apply to example input files (which are in -the subdirectory input/) that explicitly specify another license. - -- If you create a document which uses fonts included in LilyPond, and -embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, -then this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be -covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not -however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered -by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may -extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not -obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception -statement from your version. - - +GNU Lilypond is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as +published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is +contained in this file. + +The following exceptions are granted to this license: + + -- It does not apply to example input files (contained in the + subdirectory input/) that explicitly specify another license. + + -- If you create a document which uses fonts included in Lilypond, + and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the + document, then this font does not by itself cause the resulting + document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This + exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the + document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. + If you modify one or more of the fonts, you may extend this + exception to your version of the fonts but you are not obliged + to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception + statement from your version. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |