Appendix 3. The GNU General Public License

1. Preamble
2. Terms and conditions for copying,  distribution  and  modification

Abstract

The following text is the GPL license that applies to most programs found in Mandriva Linux distributions. The original can be found at the GNU website.

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.