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authorJan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>2009-11-21 09:52:40 +0100
committerJan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>2009-11-25 20:25:39 +0100
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parentaf8fb06f2cd900edc3618c3c8fa2d13872ba3e0e (diff)
Bump license to GPL v3+.
Fixes future compatibility problems, GNU packages' policy defiance and general confusion. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John Mandereau <john.mandereau@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Graham Percival <graham@percival-music.ca> Signed-off-by: Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold@kainhofer.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Neeman <joeneeman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Heikki Johannes Junes <hjunes@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Puttock <n.puttock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Carl D. Sorensen <c_sorensen@byu.edu> Signed-off-by: Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson@s3.kth.se> Signed-off-by: Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McCarty <pnorcks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sceaux <nicolas.sceaux@free.fr>
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+GNU LilyPond is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+A copy of the license is contained in the file COPYING.
+
+The following exceptions apply:
+
+ * It does not apply to the documentation files (contained in
+ the directory tree Documentation/). The documentation is
+ covered in the file LICENSE.DOCUMENTATION.
+
+ * 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.