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Preamble
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The licensing of the wxWidgets library is intended to protect the wxWidgets
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library, its developers, and its users, so that the considerable investment
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it represents is not abused.
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Under the terms of the wxWidgets Licence, you as a user are not
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obliged to distribute wxWidgets source code with your products, if you
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distribute these products in binary form. However, you are prevented from
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restricting use of the library in source code form, or denying others the
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rights to use or distribute wxWidgets library source code in the way
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intended.
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The wxWidgets Licence establishes the copyright for the code and related
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material, and it gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or
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modify the library. It also asserts that no warranty is given by the authors
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for this or derived code.
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The core distribution of the wxWidgets library contains files
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under two different licences:
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- Most files are distributed under the GNU Library General Public
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Licence, version 2, with the special exception that you may create and
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distribute object code versions built from the source code or modified
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versions of it (even if these modified versions include code under a
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different licence), and distribute such binaries under your own
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terms.
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- Most core wxWidgets manuals are made available under the "wxWidgets
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Free Documentation Licence", which allows you to distribute modified
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versions of the manuals, such as versions documenting any modifications
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made by you in your version of the library. However, you may not restrict
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any third party from reincorporating your changes into the original
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manuals.
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Other relevant files:
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- licence.txt: a statement that the wxWidgets library is
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covered by the GNU Library General Public Licence, with an
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exception notice for binary distribution.
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- licendoc.txt: the wxWidgets Documentation Licence.
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- lgpl.txt: the text of the GNU Library General Public Licence.
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- gpl.txt: the text of the GNU General Public Licence, which is
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referenced by the LGPL.
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