| The GNU General Public License (GPL) |
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| Version 2, June 1991 |
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| Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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| Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license |
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| Preamble |
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| The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share |
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| TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION |
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| 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice |
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| you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the |
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| not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is |
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| END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS |
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| How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs |
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| If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible |
| use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software |
| which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms. |
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| To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach |
| them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion |
| of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a |
| pointer to where the full notice is found. |
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| One line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does. |
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| Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> |
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| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
| under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free |
| Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) |
| any later version. |
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| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
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| FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for |
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| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along |
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| Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA |
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| Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. |
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| If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it |
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| Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes |
| with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'show w'. This is free |
| software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; |
| type 'show c' for details. |
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| The hypothetical commands 'show w' and 'show c' should show the appropriate |
| parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be |
| called something other than 'show w' and 'show c'; they could even be |
| mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program. |
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| You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, |
| if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. Here |
| is a sample; alter the names: |
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| Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program |
| 'Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. |
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| signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989 |
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| Ty Coon, President of Vice |
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| This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into |
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| consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the |
| library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public |
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| Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making |
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