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- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Version 2, June 1991
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- Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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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
- ossible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
- ree 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
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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
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- f the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
- hen it starts in an interactive mode:
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- Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy 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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- he hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
- arts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
- e called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
- ouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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- ou should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
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- ecessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
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- Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
- `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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- <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
- Ty Coon, President of Vice
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