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- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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- Version 1, February 1989
-
- Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
- Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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- 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,
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- 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
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- For example, if you distribute copies of a such a program, whether gratis
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- follow.
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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 General Public License and
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- and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of Paragraph 1
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- a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed
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- warranty protection to some or all third parties, at your option).
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- 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 most usual 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 General
- Public License.
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- may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
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- Mere aggregation of another independent work with the Program (or its derivative)
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- under the scope of these terms.
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- Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
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- a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed
- under the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
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- NO WARRANTY 9.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE
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- END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
-
- Appendix: 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 humanity, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software
- which 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; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line 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) 19yy <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; either version 1, 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) 19xx 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 could 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
- a sample; alter the names:
-
- Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `Gnomovision'
- (a program to direct compilers to make passes at assemblers) written by James
- Hacker.
-
- <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 Ty Coon, President of Vice
-
- That's all there is to it!
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