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  32 <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
  33 <p>perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 2</p>
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  37 <h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
  38 <pre>
  39  You can refer to this document in Pod via &quot;L&lt;<a href="//C|\msysgit\mingw\html/pod/perlgpl.html">perlgpl</a>&gt;&quot;
  40  Or you can see this document by entering &quot;<a href="//C|\msysgit\mingw\html/pod/perldoc.html">perldoc</a> <a href="//C|\msysgit\mingw\html/pod/perlgpl.html">perlgpl</a>&quot;</pre>
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  44 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
  45 <p>This is <strong>``The GNU General Public License, version 2''</strong>.  It's here so
  46 that modules, programs, etc., that want to declare this as their
  47 distribution license, can link to it.</p>
  48 <p>It is also one of the two licenses Perl allows itself to be
  49 redistributed and/or modified; for the other one, the Perl Artistic
  50 License, see the <a href="file://C|\msysgit\mingw\html/pod/perlartistic.html">the perlartistic manpage</a>.</p>
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  54 <h1><a name="gnu_general_public_license">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a></h1>
  55 <pre>
  56                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  57                        Version 2, June 1991</pre>
  58 <pre>
  59  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  60                           59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
  61                           02111-1307, USA.
  62  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  63  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.</pre>
  64 <pre>
  65                             Preamble</pre>
  66 <p>The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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 106 <p>--</p>
 107 <pre>
 108                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
 109    TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION</pre>
 110 <p>0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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 124 Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.</p>
 125 <p>1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
 126 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
 127 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
 128 copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
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 133 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.</p>
 134 <p>2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
 135 of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
 136 distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
 137 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:</p>
 138 <pre>
 139     a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
 140     stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.</pre>
 141 <pre>
 142     b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
 143     whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
 144     part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
 145     parties under the terms of this License.</pre>
 146 <pre>
 147     c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
 148     when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
 149     interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
 150     announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
 151     notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
 152     a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
 153     these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
 154     License.  (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
 155     does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
 156     the Program is not required to print an announcement.)</pre>
 157 <p>--</p>
 158 <p>These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
 159 identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
 160 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
 161 themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
 162 sections when you distribute them as separate works.  But when you
 163 distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
 164 on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
 165 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
 166 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.</p>
 167 <p>Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
 168 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
 169 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
 170 collective works based on the Program.</p>
 171 <p>In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
 172 with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
 173 a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
 174 the scope of this License.</p>
 175 <p>3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
 176 under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
 177 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:</p>
 178 <pre>
 179     a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
 180     source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
 181     1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,</pre>
 182 <pre>
 183     b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
 184     years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
 185     cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
 186     machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
 187     distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
 188     customarily used for software interchange; or,</pre>
 189 <pre>
 190     c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
 191     to distribute corresponding source code.  (This alternative is
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 194     an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)</pre>
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 210 <p>--</p>
 211 <p>4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
 212 except as expressly provided under this License.  Any attempt
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 225 the Program or works based on it.</p>
 226 <p>6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
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 228 original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
 229 these terms and conditions.  You may not impose any further
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 231 You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
 232 this License.</p>
 233 <p>7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
 234 infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
 235 conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
 236 otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
 237 excuse you from the conditions of this License.  If you cannot
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 239 License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
 240 may not distribute the Program at all.  For example, if a patent
 241 license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
 242 all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
 243 the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
 244 refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.</p>
 245 <p>If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
 246 any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
 247 apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
 248 circumstances.</p>
 249 <p>It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
 250 patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
 251 such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
 252 integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
 253 implemented by public license practices.  Many people have made
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 257 to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
 258 impose that choice.</p>
 259 <p>This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
 260 be a consequence of the rest of this License.</p>
 261 <p>--</p>
 262 <p>8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
 263 certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
 264 original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
 265 may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
 266 those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
 267 countries not thus excluded.  In such case, this License incorporates
 268 the limitation as if written in the body of this License.</p>
 269 <p>9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
 270 of the General Public License from time to time.  Such new versions will
 271 be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
 272 address new problems or concerns.</p>
 273 <p>Each version is given a distinguishing version number.  If the Program
 274 specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and ``any
 275 later version'', you have the option of following the terms and conditions
 276 either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
 277 Software Foundation.  If the Program does not specify a version number of
 278 this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
 279 Foundation.</p>
 280 <p>10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
 281 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
 282 to ask for permission.  For software which is copyrighted by the Free
 283 Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
 284 make exceptions for this.  Our decision will be guided by the two goals
 285 of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
 286 of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.</p>
 287 <pre>
 288                             NO WARRANTY</pre>
 289 <p>11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
 290 FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN
 291 OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
 292 PROVIDE THE PROGRAM ``AS IS'' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
 293 OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 294 MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE ENTIRE RISK AS
 295 TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE
 296 PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
 297 REPAIR OR CORRECTION.</p>
 298 <p>12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
 299 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
 300 REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
 301 INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
 302 OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
 303 TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
 304 YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
 305 PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
 306 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.</p>
 307 <pre>
 308                      END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS</pre>
 309 <p>--</p>
 310 <pre>
 311         Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs</pre>
 312 <p>If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
 313 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
 314 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.</p>
 315 <p>To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
 316 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
 317 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
 318 the ``copyright'' line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.</p>
 319 <pre>
 320     &lt;one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.&gt;
 321     Copyright (C) 19yy  &lt;name of author&gt;</pre>
 322 <pre>
 323     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 324     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 325     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 326     (at your option) any later version.</pre>
 327 <pre>
 328     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 329     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 330     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 331     GNU General Public License for more details.</pre>
 332 <pre>
 333     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 334     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 335     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</pre>
 336 <p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.</p>
 337 <p>If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
 338 when it starts in an interactive mode:</p>
 339 <pre>
 340     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
 341     Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type &quot;show w&quot;.
 342     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
 343     under certain conditions; type &quot;show c&quot; for details.</pre>
 344 <p>The hypothetical commands ``show w'' and ``show c'' should show the appropriate
 345 parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
 346 be called something other than ``show w'' and ``show c''; they could even be
 347 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.</p>
 348 <p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
 349 school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the program, if
 350 necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:</p>
 351 <pre>
 352   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
 353   &quot;Gnomovision&quot; (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.</pre>
 354 <pre>
 355   &lt;signature of Ty Coon&gt;, 1 April 1989
 356   Ty Coon, President of Vice</pre>
 357 <p>This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
 358 proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
 359 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
 360 library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
 361 Public License instead of this License.</p>
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