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Thus,itisnottheintentofthissectiontoclaimrightsorcontestyourrightstoworkwrittenentirelyby

you;rather,theintentistoexercisetherighttocontrolthedistributionofderivativeorcollectiveworks

basedontheLibrary.

Inaddition,mereaggregationofanotherworknotbasedontheLibrarywiththeLibrary(orwitha

workbasedontheLibrary)onavolumeofastorageordistributionmediumdoesnotbringtheother

workunderthescopeofthisLicense.

3.YoumayopttoapplythetermsoftheordinaryGNUGeneralPublicLicenseinsteadofthis

LicensetoagivencopyoftheLibrary.Todothis,youmustalterallthenoticesthatrefertothis

License,sothattheyrefertotheordinaryGNUGeneralPublicLicense,version2,insteadoftothis

License.(Ifanewerversionthanversion2oftheordinaryGNUGeneralPublicLicensehas

appeared,thenyoucanspecifythatversioninsteadifyouwish.)Donotmakeanyotherchangein

thesenotices.

Oncethischangeismadeinagivencopy,itisirreversibleforthatcopy,sotheordinaryGNU

GeneralPublicLicenseappliestoallsubsequentcopiesandderivativeworksmadefromthatcopy.

ThisoptionisusefulwhenyouwishtocopypartofthecodeoftheLibraryintoaprogramthatisnota

library.

4.YoumaycopyanddistributetheLibrary(oraportionorderivativeofit,underSection2)inobject

codeorexecutableformunderthetermsofSections1and2aboveprovidedthatyouaccompanyit

withthecompletecorrespondingmachine-readablesourcecode,whichmustbedistributedunder

thetermsofSections1and2aboveonamediumcustomarilyusedforsoftwareinterchange.

Ifdistributionofobjectcodeismadebyofferingaccesstocopyfromadesignatedplace,then

offeringequivalentaccesstocopythesourcecodefromthesameplacesatisfiestherequirementto

distributethesourcecode,eventhoughthirdpartiesarenotcompelledtocopythesourcealongwith

theobjectcode.

5.AprogramthatcontainsnoderivativeofanyportionoftheLibrary,butisdesignedtoworkwiththe

Librarybybeingcompiledorlinkedwithit,iscalleda"workthatusestheLibrary".Suchawork,in

isolation,isnotaderivativeworkoftheLibrary,andthereforefallsoutsidethescopeofthisLicense.

However,linkinga"workthatusestheLibrary"withtheLibrarycreatesanexecutablethatisa

derivativeoftheLibrary(becauseitcontainsportionsoftheLibrary),ratherthana"workthatuses

thelibrary".TheexecutableisthereforecoveredbythisLicense.Section6statestermsfor

distributionofsuchexecutables.

Whena"workthatusestheLibrary"usesmaterialfromaheaderfilethatispartoftheLibrary,the

objectcodefortheworkmaybeaderivativeworkoftheLibraryeventhoughthesourcecodeisnot.

WhetherthisistrueisespeciallysignificantiftheworkcanbelinkedwithouttheLibrary,orifthework

isitselfalibrary.Thethresholdforthistobetrueisnotpreciselydefinedbylaw.

Ifsuchanobjectfileusesonlynumericalparameters,datastructurelayoutsandaccessors,and

smallmacrosandsmallinlinefunctions(tenlinesorlessinlength),thentheuseoftheobjectfileis

unrestricted,regardlessofwhetheritislegallyaderivativework.(Executablescontainingthisobject

codeplusportionsoftheLibrarywillstillfallunderSection6.)

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