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1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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2 Version 2, June 1991
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4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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5 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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6 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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9 Preamble
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11 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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13 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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330 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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333 Ty Coon, President of Vice
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335 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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336 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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337 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
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