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This manual is for the Ham Radio Control Libraries (version VERSION updated UPDATED), which is a development effort to provide a consistent programming interface for programmers wanting to incorporate radio and rotor control into their programs.

Copyright © 2013 Nate Bargmann

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.

Ham Radio Control Libraries
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This manual is for Ham Radio Control Libraries (Hamlib) (version VERSION, UPDATED).

Copying and Redistribution
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This manual documents Hamlib, a programming library and various supplied programs, which is Free Software.  Besides often being distributed at no cost to you, Free in this context means that the copyright holders to Hamlib have agreed to offer their collective work under terms that give you certain rights that allow you to modify and/or redistribute Hamlib under the same terms that you received it from them.

Such licensing is often termed copyleft as a play against the common ``all rights reserved'' terms of normal copyright.  In general, copyleft provides everyone with a license to modify and distribute the modified work or to simply distribute a copyrighted work under certain terms.  Hamlib source code is copyrighted by its authors and is licensed by them under two common licenses---the GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL for the ``front end'' and ``back end'' library source code files, and the GNU General Public License GPL for the supplied programs source code files.  The full text of the LGPL and the GPL can be found in the files COPYING.LIB and COPYING in the root directory of the Hamlib source archive.

This manual is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  Source code examples in this manual are parallel licensed under the GPL unless otherwise noted.

As part of the Copyleft nature of the licenses, the authors of Hamlib must forbid you from distributing Hamlib under terms that forbid others from exercising the same rights you received.  You must give anyone you distribute Hamlib to the same rights to obtain, modify, and distribute the Hamlib source code that you received nor may you license Hamlib under other terms than those you received.  Any recipients of Hamlib must be informed of the rights to the source code that they have received.

Finally, the authors of Hamlib require that it be understood that NO WARRANTY of any kind is offered to anyone receiving the Hamlib source code distribution.  Anyone distributing modified versions of Hamlib has the responsibility to inform any recipients that what they have is not the official release of Hamlib by its authors and should be prepared to support the modified version(s).  This is to preserve the reputations of the Hamlib authors and the Hamlib Project.  While it is not a requirement of the licenses, it is courteous to offer modifications back to the Hamlib authors for possible incorporation into their official release(s).

Hamlib in a Nutshell
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Getting started
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Utility programs reference
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GNU Free Documentation License
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Working with Git
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Git offers a myriad of commands and options.  Fortunately, only a few are needed for Hamlib development.

List of Figures
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