1 The GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2, June 1991 2 3 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 4 5 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 6 7 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies 8 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 9 10 Preamble 11 12 The licenses for most software are designed to take away 13 your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU 14 General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom 15 to share and change free software--to make sure the software 16 is free for all its users. This General Public License 17 applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software 18 and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. 19 (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by 20 the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can 21 apply it to your programs, too. When we speak of free 22 software, we are referring to freedom, not price. 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