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1                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
2                       Version 2, June 1991
3
4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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10                            Preamble
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12  The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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60                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
61   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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80  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
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283        Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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285  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
286possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
287free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
288
289  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
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294    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
295    Copyright (C) 19yy  <name of author>
296
297    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
298    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
299    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
300    (at your option) any later version.
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302    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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310
311Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
312
313If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
314when it starts in an interactive mode:
315
316    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
317    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
318    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
319    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
320
321The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
322parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
323be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
324mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
325
326You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
327school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
328necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
329
330  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
331  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
332
333  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
334  Ty Coon, President of Vice
335
336This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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338consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
339library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
340Public License instead of this License.
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