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The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
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Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
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We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
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programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
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to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
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Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
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OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
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PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
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MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
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TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
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PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
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REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
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PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
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possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
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free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
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to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
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the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
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<VAR>one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.</VAR>
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Copyright (C) <VAR>yyyy</VAR> <VAR>name of author</VAR>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) <VAR>year</VAR> <VAR>name of author</VAR>
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Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
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type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome
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to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c'
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for details.
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The hypothetical commands <SAMP>`show w'</SAMP> and <SAMP>`show c'</SAMP> should show
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the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the
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commands you use may be called something other than <SAMP>`show w'</SAMP> and
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<SAMP>`show c'</SAMP>; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever
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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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<PRE>
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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
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interest in the program `Gnomovision'
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(which makes passes at compilers) written
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by James Hacker.
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<VAR>signature of Ty Coon</VAR>, 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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consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
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library. If this is what you want to do, use the
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Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
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<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><em>gnu@gnu.org</em></a>.
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