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  3. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  4. Version 2, June 1991
  5. Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  6. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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  219. of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
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  231. WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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  239. END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
  240. Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
  241. If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
  242. possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
  243. free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
  244. To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
  245. to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
  246. convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
  247. the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
  248. <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
  249. Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
  250. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  251. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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  253. (at your option) any later version.
  254. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  255. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  256. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  257. GNU General Public License for more details.
  258. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  259. along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  260. Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  261. Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
  262. If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
  263. when it starts in an interactive mode:
  264. Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
  265. Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
  266. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  267. under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
  268. The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
  269. parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
  270. be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
  271. mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
  272. You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
  273. school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
  274. necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
  275. Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  276. `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
  277. <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
  278. Ty Coon, President of Vice
  279. This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
  280. proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
  281. consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
  282. library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
  283. Public License instead of this License.
  284. The "Artistic License"
  285. Preamble
  286. The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
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  290. the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
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  352. form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
  353. interpreter is so embedded.
  354. 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
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  370. not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the
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  372. 8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
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  382. The End