Notification: terms of use of the Software and the Works Contained therein

Hereby ALT Linux informs the owner (you) of the present copy of the Linux Master 4.0 distribution (hereafter referred to as "the Distribution") about the following terms of use of the Software included in the Distribution:

1. Copyright in the Works

   Computer programs and other works included in the Distribution (hereafter referred to as "the Works") are protected by copyright according to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, other international treaties and national legislation of the country where the Distribution has been purchased.

   A holder of the copyright in a particular Works is indicated in a Work concerned or in the documentation supplied with it.

2. Fair use of the Works

   You can, without any further authorization by a copyright holder, use the Works in a limited number of ways as it is permitted under the Berne Convention or the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, other international treaties in the field and national legislation of the country where the Distribution has been purchased (right of a fair use).

3. The use of Free Works

   All the Works in the Distribution, except for the Works listed below, are licensed to you under so called 'free licenses' and, therefore, are Free Works. Under a free license, you are granted the following rights in addition to the usual right of fair use:

   • to obtain and to study the source code of a Work;
   • to install, copy and use a Work on an unlimited number of computers for any purpose;
   • to make any modifications to a Work;
   • to launch, lease, and distribute a Work by any means either in the original or a modified form, either gratis or for a fee, provided that you accompany them with a copy of the original license agreement (free license).

   By performing one of the acts of use allowed under a free licence, when this use would otherwise exceed the scope of a fair use of a Work, you agree to the terms of that license.

   Upon request from you, or any third party interested, made within three years from the day of publication of this Distribution, ALT Linux will give the source code of a Work for the cost of physically performing source distribution.

4. The use of Proprietary Works

   The Works listed below are distributed by ALT Linux on conditions different from those stated in the previous clause. Holders of a copyright (exclusive rights) for these Works can limit, in one way or another, your freedom to use these Works. You should familiarize yourself with the terms of license agreements by which these Works are accompanied to find out the ways, if any, in which you can use each of the Works, apart from the usual right of a fair use. These Works are the following:

   • ATI video-card drivers
   • Firmware for Intel WiFi cards
   • NVidia video-card drivers
   • VIA video-card drivers
   • Matrox video-card drivers
   • NVidia NForce chipset drivers
   • pct789 (PCTel), cm8738, i8xx, sis and via686a modem drivers
   • Promise IDE/RAID controller drivers
   • Lucent/Agere modem support modules
   • Adobe Flash Player Plugin
   • Java 2 (SUN) Runtime Environment, Standard Edition

   ALT Linux has a permission to distribute ATI, NVidia and VIA video-card drivers as part of the ALT Linux distributions.