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2        GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
3           Version 2, June 1991
4
5 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6                       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
7 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
8 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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10          Preamble
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12  The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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60        GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
61   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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80  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
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115These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
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260          NO WARRANTY
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283         END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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285      How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
286
287  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
288possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
289free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these
290terms.
291
292  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
293to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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295the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
296
297    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
298    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
299
300    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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303    (at your option) any later version.
304
305    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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309
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313
314
315Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
316
317If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
318when it starts in an interactive mode:
319
320    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
321    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
322    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
323    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
324
325The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
326parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
327be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
328mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
329
330You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
331school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
332necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
333
334  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
335  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
336
337  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
338  Ty Coon, President of Vice
339
340This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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342consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
343library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
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