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1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE | 1 See individual files for licenses |
2 Version 2, June 1991 | |
3 | |
4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/> | |
5 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
6 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
7 | |
8 Preamble | |
9 | |
10 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your | |
11 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public | |
12 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free | |
13 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This | |
14 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software | |
15 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to | |
16 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by | |
17 the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to | |
18 your programs, too. | |
19 | |
20 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not | |
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24 if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it | |
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29 These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you | |
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31 | |
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38 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and | |
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40 distribute and/or modify the software. | |
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42 Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain | |
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57 | |
58 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE | |
59 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION | |
60 | |
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77 | |
78 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's | |
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248 | |
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256 | |
257 NO WARRANTY | |
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267 REPAIR OR CORRECTION. | |
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278 | |
279 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS | |
280 | |
281 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs | |
282 | |
283 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest | |
284 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it | |
285 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms. | |
286 | |
287 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest | |
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290 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. | |
291 | |
292 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> | |
293 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> | |
294 | |
295 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
296 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
297 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
298 (at your option) any later version. | |
299 | |
300 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
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304 | |
305 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
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307 | |
308 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. | |
309 | |
310 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this | |
311 when it starts in an interactive mode: | |
312 | |
313 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author | |
314 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. | |
315 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it | |
316 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. | |
317 | |
318 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate | |
319 parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may | |
320 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be | |
321 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program. | |
322 | |
323 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your | |
324 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if | |
325 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: | |
326 | |
327 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program | |
328 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. | |
329 | |
330 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 | |
331 Ty Coon, President of Vice | |
332 | |
333 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into | |
334 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may | |
335 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the | |
336 library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General | |
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