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            FREYJA GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

(Wording taken with permission from the General Public License of GNU
EMACS supplied by the Free Software Foundation.)

 Copyright 1991 by Craig A. Finseth
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
 license, but changing it is not allowed.  You can also use this
 wording to make the terms for other programs.

  The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the
mercy of those companies.  By contrast, this general public license is
intended to give everyone the right to share Freyja.  To make sure
that you get the rights I want you to have, I need to make
restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you
to surrender the rights.  Hence this license agreement.

  Specifically, I want to make sure that you have the right to give
away copies of Freyja, that you receive source code or else can get it
if you want it, that you can change Freyja or use pieces of it in new
free programs, and that you know you can do these things.

  To make sure that everyone has such rights, I have to forbid you to
deprive anyone else of these rights.  For example, if you distribute
copies of Freyja, you must give the recipients all the rights that you
have.  You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
source code.  And you must tell them their rights.

  Also, for my own protection, I must make certain that everyone finds
out that there is no warranty for Freyja.  If Freyja is modified by
someone else and passed on, I want its recipients to know that what
they have is not what I distributed, so that any problems introduced
by others will not reflect on my reputation.

  Therefore I (Craig A. Finseth) make the following terms which say
what you must do to be allowed to distribute or change Freyja.

               COPYING POLICIES

  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of Freyja source code
as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright notice "Copyright
1991 Craig A. Finseth" (or with whatever year is appropriate); keep
intact the notices on all files that refer to this License Agreement
and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of
the Freyja program a copy of this License Agreement along with the
program.  You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
transferring a copy.

  2. You may modify your copy or copies of Freyja source code or any
portion of it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the
terms of Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:

    a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
    that you changed the files and the date of any change; and

    b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
    that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of Freyja
    or any part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to all third
    parties on terms identical to those contained in this License
    Agreement (except that you may choose to grant more extensive
    warranty protection to some or all third parties, at your option).

    c) if the modified program serves as a text editor, cause it when
    started running in the simplest and usual way, to print an
    announcement including a valid copyright notice "Copyright
    1991 Craig A. Finseth" (or with the year that is appropriate),
    saying 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
    License Agreement.

    d) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
    transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty
    protection in exchange for a fee.

Mere aggregation of another unrelated program with this program (or
its derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does
not bring the other program under the scope of these terms.

  3. You may copy and distribute Freyja (or a portion or derivative of
it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the
terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the
following:

    a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
    Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,

    b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
    years, to give any third party free (except for a nominal
    shipping charge) a complete machine-readable copy of the
    corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of
    Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,

    c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the
    corresponding source code may be obtained.  (This alternative is
    allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
    received the program in object code or executable form alone.)

For an executable file, complete source code means all the source code
for all modules it contains; but, as a special exception, it need not
include source code for modules which are standard libraries that
accompany the operating system on which the executable file runs.

  4. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer Freyja
except as expressly provided under this License Agreement.  Any
attempt otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer Freyja
is void and your rights to use Freyja under this License agreement
shall be automatically terminated.  However, parties who have received
computer software programs from you with this License Agreement will
not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in
full compliance.

  5. If you wish to incorporate parts of Freyja into other free
programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to Craig
A. Finseth.  I have not yet worked out a simple rule that can be
stated here, but I will often permit this.  I will be guided by the
two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free
software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software.

Your comments and suggestions about licensing policies and our
software are welcome!  Please contact Craig A. Finseth, 1343 Lafond,
St. Paul, MN 55104, USA, or call [phone].

                 NO WARRANTY

  BECAUSE FREYJA IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, I PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE STATE LAW.  EXCEPT
WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, CRAIG A. FINSETH AND/OR OTHER
PARTIES PROVIDE FREYJA "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS
WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE FREYJA PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE
COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

 IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL CRAIG A. FINSETH
AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE FREYJA AS
PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST
PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE (INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES
SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH
PROGRAMS NOT DISTRIBUTED BY CRAIG A. FINSETH) THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF YOU
HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM
BY ANY OTHER PARTY.