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      1 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
      2 		       Version 2, June 1991
      3 
      4  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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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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     60 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
     61    TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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     63   0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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     79 
     80   1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
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     88 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
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     91   2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
     92 of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
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     98 
     99     b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
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    103 
    104     c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
    105     when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
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    112     does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
    113     the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
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    283 
    284 		     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
    285 
    287 	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
    288 
    289   If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
    290 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
    291 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
    292 
    293   To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
    294 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
    295 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
    296 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
    297 
    298     <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    299     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
    300 
    301     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    302     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    303     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    304     (at your option) any later version.
    305 
    306     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    307     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    308     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    309     GNU General Public License for more details.
    310 
    311     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    312     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    313     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
    314 
    315 
    316 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
    317 
    318 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
    319 when it starts in an interactive mode:
    320 
    321     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year  name of author
    322     Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
    323     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    324     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
    325 
    326 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
    327 parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
    328 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
    329 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
    330 
    331 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
    332 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
    333 necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
    334 
    335   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
    336   `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
    337 
    338   <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
    339   Ty Coon, President of Vice
    340 
    341 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
    342 proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
    343 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
    344 library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
    345 Public License instead of this License.
    346