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13 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE<br>
14 Version 2, June 1991<br>
15<br>
16 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,<br>
17 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA<br>
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293<br>
294 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs<br>
295<br>
296 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest<br>
297possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it<br>
298free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.<br>
299<br>
300 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest<br>
301to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively<br>
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303the &quot;copyright&quot; line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.<br>
304<br>
305 &lt;one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.&gt;<br>
306 Copyright (C) &lt;year&gt; &lt;name of author&gt;<br>
307<br>
308 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify<br>
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310 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or<br>
311 (at your option) any later version.<br>
312<br>
313 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br>
314 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br>
315 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the<br>
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319 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,<br>
320 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.<br>
321<br>
322Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.<br>
323<br>
324If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this<br>
325when it starts in an interactive mode:<br>
326<br>
327 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author<br>
328 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.<br>
329 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it<br>
330 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.<br>
331<br>
332The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate<br>
333parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may<br>
334be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be<br>
335mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.<br>
336<br>
337You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your<br>
338school, if any, to sign a &quot;copyright disclaimer&quot; for the program, if<br>
339necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:<br>
340<br>
341 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program<br>
342 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.<br>
343<br>
344 &lt;signature of Ty Coon&gt;, 1 April 1989<br>
345 Ty Coon, President of Vice<br>
346<br>
347This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into<br>
348proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may<br>
349consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the<br>
350library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General<br>
351Public License instead of this License.<br>
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