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            GALAHAD PUBLIC LICENSE

          Copyright (c) 1989 Virtual Systems Software

     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, our general public license is
intended to give everyone the right to share GALAHAD and its associated
programs.  To make sure that you get the rights we want you to have, we
need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or
to ask you to surrender the rights.  Hence this license agreement.

     The name GALAHAD in this License Agreement not only refers to the
Galahad program (GAL2) itself, but also to the associated collection of
programs, including PERCIVAL, GUENEVERE, and BEDEVERE.

     Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
away copies of GALAHAD and that you receive source code, or else can get
it if you want it, that you can change GALAHAD 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, we have to forbid you to
deprive anyone else of these rights.  For example, if you distribute
copies of GALAHAD, you must give the recipient 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 our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
finds out that there is no warranty for GALAHAD and its associated
programs.  If GALAHAD is modified by someone else and passed on, we want
its recipient to know that what they have is not what we distributed, so
that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on our reputation.

     Therefore we (Clarkson University and Virtual Systems Software) make
the following terms which say what you must do to be allowed to distribute
or change GALAHAD.

            COPYING POLICIES

  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of GALAHAD executable and
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously
and appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright notice "Copyright (c)
1989 Virtual Systems Software" (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 GALAHAD 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 GALAHAD 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 GALAHAD
    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 and/or a
    word processor, cause it when started running in the simplest
    and usual way, to print an announcement including a valid
    copyright notice "Copyright (c) 1989 Virtual Systems Software"
    (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 GALAHAD (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 GALAHAD except as
expressly provided under this License Agreement.  Any attempt otherwise to
copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer GALAHAD is void and your rights to use
GALAHAD 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 GALAHAD into other free programs whose
distribution conditions are different, write to Clarkson University.  We
have not yet worked out a simple rule that can be stated here, but we will
often permit this.  We 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 our licensing policies and our
software are welcome!  Please contact Clarkson University, Educational
Computing, Potsdam, NY -- 315-268-6455

               NO WARRANTY

     BECAUSE GALAHAD IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE STATE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, CLARKSON UNIVERSITY, VIRTUAL SYSTEMS SOFTWARE
AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE GALAHAD "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 GALAHAD PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

     IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL VIRTUAL SYSTEMS
SOFTWARE, AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE GALAHAD
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 CLARKSON UNIVERSITY) THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF YOU
HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY
ANY OTHER PARTY.

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  This License is based on the GNU EMACS GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE by Free
Software Foundation, Inc. (Clarified 11 Feb 1988)