001 /* ========================================================================
002 * JCommon : a free general purpose class library for the Java(tm) platform
003 * ========================================================================
004 *
005 * (C) Copyright 2000-2005, by Object Refinery Limited and Contributors.
006 *
007 * Project Info: http://www.jfree.org/jcommon/index.html
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026 *
027 * -------------
028 * Licences.java
029 * -------------
030 * (C) Copyright 2001-2004, by Object Refinery Limited.
031 *
032 * Original Author: David Gilbert (for Object Refinery Limited);
033 * Contributor(s): -;
034 *
035 * $Id: Licences.java,v 1.4 2005/11/16 15:58:41 taqua Exp $
036 *
037 * Changes
038 * -------
039 * 26-Nov-2001 : Version 1 (DG);
040 * 29-Jan-2002 : Appended the instructions to the end of the GNU LGPL and GPL to comply with
041 * GNU requirements (DG);
042 * 28-Feb-2002 : Moved to package com.jrefinery.ui.about (DG);
043 * 08-Oct-2002 : Fixed errors reported by Checkstyle (DG);
044 *
045 */
046
047 package org.jfree.ui.about;
048
049 /**
050 * Contains the full texts of the GNU General Public Licence and the GNU Lesser General Public
051 * Licence.
052 * <P>
053 * These are used in the presentation of a standard 'About' frame.
054 *
055 * @author David Gilbert
056 */
057 public class Licences {
058
059 /** The GNU General Public Licence. */
060 public static final String GPL = "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\n"
061 + "\n"
062 + "Version 2, June 1991\n"
063 + "\n"
064 + "Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, "
065 + "MA 02139, USA. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this "
066 + "license document, but changing it is not allowed.\n"
067 + "\n"
068 + "Preamble\n"
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071 + "freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all "
072 + "its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software "
073 + "Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some "
074 + "other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public "
075 + "License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.\n"
076 + "\n"
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078 + "Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute "
079 + "copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive "
080 + "source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use "
081 + "pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things."
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084 + "these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to "
085 + "certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you "
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102 + "\n"
103 + "Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to "
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105 + "licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it "
106 + "clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at "
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110 + "\n"
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128 + "\n"
129 + "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you "
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342 + "other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items"
343 + "--whatever suits your program.\n"
344 + "\n"
345 + "You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if "
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347 + "sample; alter the names:\n"
348 + "\n"
349 + "Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `Gnomovision' "
350 + "(which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.\n"
351 + "\n"
352 + "<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989\n"
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360
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362 public static final String LGPL = "GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\n"
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372 + "successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version number "
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