General guidelines on using this software

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General Guidelines for Using GNUPro Toolkit

These guidelines are intended to help you understand what you are allowed to do with this software.

You are free to use, copy, modify, and redistribute the files contained in this distribution subject to certain terms and conditions. You may use them in commercial and non-commercial applications alike. You may make a profit from doing so. You do not need to pay any royalties. The terms and conditions imposed on you all take one of the following forms.

You may be required to preserve or reproduce the existing copyright notice and/or licensing terms.
You may be required to give appropriate credit to third parties for the role they played in helping to create the software.
You may be required to agree not use the name of third parties in advertising or publicity without their permission.
You may be required to agree not to hold third parties liable for loss or damages caused by your use of the software.
You may be required to give parties to which you distribute verbatim copies or derivatives works the corresponding source code as well as permission for them to redistribute what you provide to them free from any additional encumbrances.

These guidelines are not intended as a legal statement. For source files, the precise legal statement of what you can and can't do is in the licenses for the individual source files. For files in the binary distribution what you can and can't do is specified in the licenses to the source files from which the binary files derive.

These guidelines are also only intended to help you understand what you can do with this software as far as your rights might be limited under copyright law. Other laws dealing with patents, encryption, export to certain foreign nations, and so on, could, in some circumstances, also limit your rights.

Cygnus Solutions doesn't encumber the components of this distribution with any additional restrictions beyond those contained in the original software

Any works created by Cygnus Solutions are distributed under the same terms as the components to which they are a part.

Works created by Cygnus Solutions that standalone are typically distributed under the GNU General Public License.