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"This software program is licensed subject to the GNU General Public License
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(GPL). Version 2, June 1991, available at
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GNU General Public License
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Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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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
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possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free
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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
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attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the
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exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright"
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line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
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one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.
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Copyright (C) yyyy name of author
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
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this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
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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
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it starts in an interactive mode:
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Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes
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with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'show w'. This is free
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software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
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type 'show c' for details.
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The hypothetical commands 'show w' and 'show c' should show the appropriate
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parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be
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called something other than 'show w' and 'show c'; they could even be
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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
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school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
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necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
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'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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proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
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library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public
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