1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
2 Version 2, June 1991
3
4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
6 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
7 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
8
9 Preamble
10
11 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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14software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
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20
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59 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
60 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
61
62 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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72Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
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78
79 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
80source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
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82copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
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87You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
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90 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
91of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
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93above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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95 a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
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99 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
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103 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
104 when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
105 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
106 announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
107 notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
108 a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
109 these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
110 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
111 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
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114These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
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258 NO WARRANTY
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260 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
261FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
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264OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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268REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
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271WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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280 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
281
282 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
283
284 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
285possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
286free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
287
288 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
289to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
290convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
291the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
292
293 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
294 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
295
296 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
297 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
298 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
299 (at your option) any later version.
300
301 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
302 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
303 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
304 GNU General Public License for more details.
305
306 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
307 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
308 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
309
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) year 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
337proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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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