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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 1, February 1989
Copyright (C) 1989
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
675 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
PREAMBLE
The license agreements of most software companies try to
keep users at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our
General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to
share and change free software--to make sure the software is free
for all its users. The General Public License applies to the
Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program
whose authors commit to using it. You can use it for your
programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom,
not price. Specifically, the General Public License is designed
to make sure that you have the freedom to give away or sell
copies of free software, that you receive source code or can get
it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces
of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these
things. To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions
that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to
surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain
responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the
software, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of a such a program,
whether gratis or for a fee, 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.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the
software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal
permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.
Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make
certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for
this free software. If the software is modified by someone else
and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have
is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others
will not reflect on the original authors' reputations.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution
and modification follow.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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 Program or a portion of it, either
verbatim or with modifications. Each licensee is addressed as
"you".
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 General Public License
and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients
of the Program a copy of this General Public License along with
the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act of
transferring a copy.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program 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
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publish, that in whole or in part contains the Program
or any part thereof, either with or without
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parties under the terms of this General Public License
(except that you may choose to grant warranty
protection to some or all third parties, at your
option).
(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
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including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice
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provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the
program under these conditions, and telling the user
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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 exchange for a fee.
Mere aggregation of another independent work with the
Program (or its derivative) on a volume of a storage or
distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope
of these terms.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (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
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(b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least
three years, to give any third party free (except for a
nominal charge for the cost of distribution) 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
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object code or executable form alone.)
Source code for a work means the preferred form of the work
for making modifications to it. 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, or for
standard header files or definitions files that accompany that
operating system.
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or transfer
the Program except as expressly provided under this General
Public License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify,
sublicense, distribute or transfer the Program is void, and will
automatically terminate your rights to use the Program under this
License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights to
use copies, from you under this General Public License will not
have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in
full compliance.
5. By copying, distributing or modifying the Program (or any
work based on the Program) you indicate your acceptance of this
license to do so, and all its terms and conditions.
6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on
the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from
the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program
subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any
further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights
granted herein.
7. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new
versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such
new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version,
but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If
the Program specifies a version number of the license which
applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of
following the terms and conditions either of that version or of
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If
the Program does not specify a version number of the license, you
may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
Foundation.
8. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other
free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write
to the author to ask for permission. For software which is
copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free
Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our
decision 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 generally.
NO WARRANTY
9. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "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
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
10. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO
IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY
MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR
INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS
OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH
ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS