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- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Version 1, February 1989
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- Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- 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.
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- 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.
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- For example, if you distribute copies of a such a program, whether
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- you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
- source code. And you must tell them their rights.
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- We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
- (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
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- Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
- that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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- The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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- 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".
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- 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
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- along with the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act of
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- 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:
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- a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that
- you changed the files and the date of any change; and
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- b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, that
- in whole or in part contains the Program or any part thereof, either
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- third 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).
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- c) If the modified program normally reads ) written by James Hacker.
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- <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
- Ty Coon, President of Vice
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- That's all there is to it!
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