1 Copyright (C) 1992-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 2 3 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 4 Version 2, June 1991 5 6 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 7 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 8 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies 9 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 10 11 Preamble 12 13 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your 14 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public 15 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free 16 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This 17 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software 18 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to 19 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by 20 the GNU Library General Public License instead.) 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