Nu �eneral public licen�e version 2, june �99 – Asus Eee PC 701SD/Linux Manuel d'utilisation

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�NU �ENERAL PUBLIC LICEN�E

Version 2, June �99�

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, 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 allowed.

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your

freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public

License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change

free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.

This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software

Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors

commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software

is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You

can apply it to your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not

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pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do

these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid

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