LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.0

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Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0
Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0+
SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.0.html
Usage-Guide:
  To use this license in source code, put one of the following SPDX
  tag/value pairs into a comment according to the placement
  guidelines in the licensing rules documentation.
  For 'GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) version 2.0 only' use:
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0
  For 'GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) version 2.0 or any later
  version' use:
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0+
License-Text:

GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
<https://fsf.org/>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

[This is the first released version of the library GPL. It is numbered 2
because it goes with version 2 of the ordinary GPL.]

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to
share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public Licenses are
intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to
make sure the software is free for all its users.

This license, the Library General Public License, applies to some specially
designated Free Software Foundation software, and to any other libraries
whose authors decide to use it. You can use it for your libraries, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our
General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom
to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you
wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you
can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that
you know you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to
deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These
restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
distribute copies of the library, or if you modify it.

For example, if you distribute copies of the library, whether gratis or for
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must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. If you
link a program with the library, you must provide complete object files to
the recipients so that they can relink them with the library, after making
changes to the library and recompiling it. And you must show them these
terms so they know their rights.

Our method of protecting your rights has two steps: (1) copyright the
library, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to
copy, distribute and/or modify the library.

Also, for each distributor's protection, we want to make certain that
everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free library. If
the library is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its
recipients to know that what they have is not the original version, so that
any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors'
reputations.

Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We
wish to avoid the danger that companies distributing free software will

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