linux/drivers/net/e1000/LICENSE

"This software program is licensed subject to the GNU General Public License 
(GPL). Version 2, June 1991, available at 
<http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>"

GNU General Public License 

Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, 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 
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whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation 
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When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our
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To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to 
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For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or 
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We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) 
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice
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   Each licensee is addressed as "you". 

   Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not 
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1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code 
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   disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this 
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   You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you 
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2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, 
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   you also meet all of these conditions: 

   * a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating 
        that you changed the files and the date of any change. 

   * b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in 
        whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part 
        thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
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   * c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when 
        run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive 
        use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement 
        including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is
        no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that 
        users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and 
        telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if 
        the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such 
        an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to 
        print an announcement.) 

   These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable 
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   reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then 
   this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you 
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   distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose 
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   each and every part regardless of who wrote it. 

   Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest 
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   In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program 
   with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a 
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   NO WARRANTY

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    FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN 
    OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES 
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    YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL 
    NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. 

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    WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR 
    REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR 
    DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL 
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest 
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free 
software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms. 

To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to 
attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the
exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" 
line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. 

one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.
Copyright (C) yyyy  name of author

This program 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 2 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, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 
Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. 

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when 
it starts in an interactive mode: 

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes 
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'show w'.  This is free 
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; 
type 'show c' for details.

The hypothetical commands 'show w' and 'show c' should show the appropriate 
parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be 
called something other than 'show w' and 'show c'; they could even be 
mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program. 

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your 
school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if 
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: 

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program 
'Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into 
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may 
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the 
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public 
License instead of this License.