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THE GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2
June, 1991

Copyright, 1989, 1991
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
675 Mass Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02319

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

E.1. Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to
share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU 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.  This General Public
License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and
to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free
Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General
Public License instead.)

You can apply it to your programs too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure you have to
freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this
service if you wish); that you receive the 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 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 do too.  You must make sure that they, too,
receive or can get the source code.  And you must show them these terms
so they know 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
author's reputations.

Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents.
We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will
individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program
proprietary.  To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent
must be licensed to everyone's free use or not licensed at all.

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution, and
modification follow.

E.2. GNU General Public License: Terms and
Conditions for Copying, Distribution, and
Modification

0.  This License 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 derivative work under copyright law: that is
to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either
verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language.
(Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term
"modification.")  Each licensee is addressed as "you."

Activities other than copying, distribution, and modification are not
covered by this License; they are outside its scope.  The act of running
the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is
covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program
(independent of having been made by running the program).

Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.

1.  You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program 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 any warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License, and to the absence of any
warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this
License along with the Program.

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.

2.  You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of
it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute
such modifications or work under the terms or Section 1 above,
provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

a.  You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
stating that you have changed the files and the date of any
change.
b.  You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all
third parties under the terms of this License.
c.  If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display
an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
notice 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. (Exception: if the Program itself is
interactive but does not normally print such an announcement,
your work based on the Program is not required to print such an
announcement.)

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works.  But when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole that is based on the
Program, the distribution of the whole must on the terms of this
License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire
whole, and this to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
collective works based on the Program.

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the
Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a
volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other
work under the scope of this License.

3.  You may copy or distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under
Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 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
Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for
software interchange; or,
b.  Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give to any third party, for a charge no more than
your cost of physically performing source distribution, a
complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source
code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2
above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
or,
c.  Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code.  (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with
such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
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If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
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access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
compelled to copy the source along with the object code.

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except as expressly provided under this License.  Any attempt
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void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this
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you under this License will not have their licenses terminated, so
long as such parties remain in full compliance.

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signed it.  However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Program or its derivative works.  These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License.  Therefore, by
modifying or distributing 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 for copying, distributing, or modifying
the Program or works based on it.

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Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
original licenser to copy, distribute, or modify the Program subject
to these terms and conditions.  You may not impose any further
restrictions on the recipients' exercise ranted therein.  You are not
responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this
License.

7.  If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you, (whether by court order, agreement, or
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do
not excuse you from the conditions of this License.  If you cannot
distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under
this License and any other pertinent obligations, then, as a
consequence, you may not distribute the Program at all.  For example,
if a patent license would not permit royalty-free distribution of the
Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly
through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this
License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the
Program.

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
any particular circumstance, the balance of this section in intended
to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
circumstances.

It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
implemented by public license practices.  Many people have made
generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
though that system in reliance in consistent application of that
system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is
willing to distribute software through any other system and a
licensee cannot impose that choice.

This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
be a consequence of the rest of this License.

8.  If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
certain countries by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
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may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
countries not thus excluded.  In such case, this License incorporates
the limitation as if written in the body of this License.

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of the General Public License from time to time.  Such new versions
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detail to address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number.  If the
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and conditions of either that version or of later version published
by the Free Software Foundation.  If the Program does not specify a
version number of this License, you may choose any version ever
published b the Free Software Foundation.

10.  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

11.  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 SERVICE, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION.

12.  IN NO EVENT, UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
WRITING, WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR AN 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 OF LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR ANY 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



How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
free software that everyone can redistribute and change under these
terms.

To do so, attach the following notices to the program:  It is safest to
attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey
the exclusion of warranty.  Each file should have at least the
"copyright" file and a pointer to where the full notice is found:

<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright c yyyy <name of author>

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 the
Free Software Foundation; wither version 2 of the License or (at your
option) any later version

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright c yyyy 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.

The hypothetical commands `    show w' and `    show c' should show the
appropriate parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the
commands you use may be called something other than `    show w'   and `
show c'; they can even be mouse clicks or menu items-whatever suits your
program.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:

Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `
Gnomovision'  (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

<signature of Ty Coon>,   1 April, 1989

Ty Coon, President of V.

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
into proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you
may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications
with the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library
General Public License instead of this License.