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1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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2 Version 2, June 1991
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3
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4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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6 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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7 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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9 Preamble
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11 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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12 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
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13 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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14 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
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15 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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16 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
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17 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
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18 the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
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19 your programs, too.
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21 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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22 price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
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23 have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
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24 this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
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25 if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
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26 in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
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28 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
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29 anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
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30 These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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31 distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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33 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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34 gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
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35 you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
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36 source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
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37 rights.
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39 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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40 (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
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41 distribute and/or modify the software.
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43 Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
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44 that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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45 software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
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46 want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
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47 that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
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48 authors' reputations.
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50 Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
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51 patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
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52 program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
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53 program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
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54 patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
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56 The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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57 modification follow.
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59 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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60 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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62 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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63 a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
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64 under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
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65 refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
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66 means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
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67 that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
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68 either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
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69 language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
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70 the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
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72 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
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73 covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
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74 running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
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75 is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
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76 Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
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77 Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
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79 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
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80 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
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81 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
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82 copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
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83 notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
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84 and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
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85 along with the Program.
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87 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
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88 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
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90 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
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91 of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
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92 distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
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93 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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95 a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
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96 stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
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98 b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
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99 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
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100 part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
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101 parties under the terms of this License.
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103 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
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104 when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
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105 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
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106 announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
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107 notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
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108 a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
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109 these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
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110 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
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111 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
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112 the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
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114 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
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115 identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
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116 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
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117 themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
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118 sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
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119 distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
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120 on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
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121 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
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122 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
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124 Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
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125 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
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126 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
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127 collective works based on the Program.
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129 In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
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130 with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
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131 a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
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132 the scope of this License.
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133
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134 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
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135 under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
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136 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
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138 a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
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139 source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
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140 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
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142 b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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143 years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
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144 cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
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145 machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
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146 distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
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147 customarily used for software interchange; or,
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149 c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
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150 to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
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151 allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
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152 received the program in object code or executable form with such
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153 an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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235 the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
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252 to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
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254 make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
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260 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
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262 OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
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263 PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
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266 TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
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271 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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272 REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
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277 PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
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278 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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282 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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285 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
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286 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
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288 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
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294 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
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296 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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297 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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298 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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302 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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304 GNU General Public License for more details.
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306 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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307 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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311 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
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313 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
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314 when it starts in an interactive mode:
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315
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316 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
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317 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
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318 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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319 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
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321 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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322 parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
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323 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
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324 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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325
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326 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
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327 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
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328 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
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329
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330 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
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331 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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332
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333 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
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334 Ty Coon, President of Vice
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335
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336 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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337 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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338 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
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339 library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
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340 Public License instead of this License.