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1.4 Your rights ¶

The paragraphs below, in this section, belong to the GNU Texinfo⁸ manual and are not written by us! The name “Texinfo” is just changed to “GNU Astronomy Utilities” or “Gnuastro” because they are released under the same licenses and it is beautifully written to inform you of your rights.

GNU Astronomy Utilities is “free software”; this means that everyone is free to use it and free to redistribute it on certain conditions. Gnuastro is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are restrictions on its distribution, but these restrictions are designed to permit everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do. What is not allowed is to try to prevent others from further sharing any version of Gnuastro that they might get from you.

Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give away copies of the programs that relate to Gnuastro, that you receive the source code or else can get it if you want it, that you can change these programs or use pieces of them in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.

To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to deprive anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute copies of the Gnuastro related programs, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must tell them their rights.

Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone finds out that there is no warranty for the programs that relate to Gnuastro. If these programs are modified by someone else and passed on, we want their recipients to know that what they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on our reputation.

The full text of the licenses for the Gnuastro book and software can be respectively found in GNU Gen. Pub. License v3⁹ and GNU Free Doc. License¹⁰.