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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) 19yy <name of author>
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If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
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Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
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Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
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This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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under certain conditions; 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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mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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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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proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
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