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3 <title>GNU General Public License</title>
7 Copyright 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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18 <title>Preamble</title>
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81 <title>TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
84 <title>Section 0</title>
86 This License applies to any program or other work which contains a
87 notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
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108 <title>Section 1</title>
110 You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source
111 code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously
112 and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice
113 and disclaimer of warranty;
114 keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the
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118 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
119 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
123 <title>Section 2</title>
125 You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it,
126 thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such
127 modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided
128 that you also meet all of these conditions:
133 You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
134 stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
139 You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
140 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
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147 If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
148 when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
149 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
150 announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
151 notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you
152 provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program
153 under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy
160 If the Program itself is interactive but does not normally
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402 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
407 <title>How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
410 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
411 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
412 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these
415 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
416 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
417 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
418 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
420 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it
422 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
424 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
425 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
426 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
427 (at your option) any later version.
429 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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431 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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434 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
435 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
436 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
439 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
441 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
442 when it starts in an interactive mode:
444 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
445 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
446 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
447 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
449 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the
450 appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands
451 you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they
452 could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
454 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
455 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
456 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
458 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
459 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
461 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
462 Ty Coon, President of Vice
464 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
465 into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
466 may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications
467 with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library
468 General Public License instead of this License.
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