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| GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
| Version 1, February 1989 |
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| Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA |
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| Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies |
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| Preamble |
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| The license agreements of most software companies try to keep users |
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| The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and |
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| GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
| TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION |
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| 0. This License Agreement applies to any program or other work which |
| contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be |
| distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The |
| "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based |
| on the Program" means either the Program or any work containing the |
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| 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source |
| code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and |
| appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and |
| disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this |
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| third parties, at your option). |
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| c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when |
| run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use |
| in the simplest and most usual way, to print or display an |
| announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice |
| that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a |
| warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these |
| conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this General |
| Public License. |
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| d) You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a |
| copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in |
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| Mere aggregation of another independent work with the Program (or its |
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| the other work under the scope of these terms. |
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| 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a portion or derivative of |
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| a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable |
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| corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is |
| allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you |
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| REPAIR OR CORRECTION. |
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| WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR |
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| POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. |
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| END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS |
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| Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs |
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| If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest |
| possible use to humanity, the best way to achieve this is to make it |
| free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these |
| terms. |
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| To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to |
| attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey |
| the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the |
| "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. |
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| <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> |
| Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author> |
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| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) |
| any later version. |
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| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
| Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301 USA |
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| Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. |
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| If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this |
| when it starts in an interactive mode: |
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| Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19xx name of author |
| Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. |
| This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it |
| under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. |
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| The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the |
| appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the |
| commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show |
| c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your |
| program. |
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| You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your |
| school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if |
| necessary. Here a sample; alter the names: |
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| Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the |
| program `Gnomovision' (a program to direct compilers to make passes |
| at assemblers) written by James Hacker. |
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| <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 |
| Ty Coon, President of Vice |
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| That's all there is to it! |