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1GNU General Public License
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4                         Version 2, June 1991
5
6     Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
7     59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA
8     
9     Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
10     of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
11
12Preamble
13========
14
15The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom
16to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public License is
17intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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32To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone
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35distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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37For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis
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42We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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53Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents.
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62                      GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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64    TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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262 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
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270
271                                NO WARRANTY
272
273 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
274     WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
275     LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
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280     QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE
281     PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
282     SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
283
284 12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
285     WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY
286     MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
287     LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL,
288     INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR
289     INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
290     DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU
291     OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY
292     OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN
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294
295                      END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
296
297How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
298=============================================
299
300If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
301possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
302free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these
303terms.
304
305To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest to
306attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey
307the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
308"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
309
310     ONE LINE TO GIVE THE PROGRAM'S NAME AND A BRIEF IDEA OF WHAT IT DOES.
311     Copyright (C) YYYY  NAME OF AUTHOR
312     
313     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
314     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
315     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
316     (at your option) any later version.
317     
318     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
319     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
320     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
321     GNU General Public License for more details.
322     
323     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
324     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
325     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
326
327Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
328
329If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
330when it starts in an interactive mode:
331
332     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19YY NAME OF AUTHOR
333     Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
334     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
335     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
336
337The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the
338appropriate parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the
339commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show
340c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your
341program.
342
343You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
344school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
345necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
346
347     Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
348     `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
349     
350     SIGNATURE OF TY COON, 1 April 1989
351     Ty Coon, President of Vice
352
353This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
354into proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library,
355you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
356applications with the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the
357GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
358
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