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770 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
773 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible
774 use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software
775 which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
778 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to
779 attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively state the
780 exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
781 “copyright” line and a pointer to where the full notice is
785 <replaceable>one line to give the program’s name and a brief idea of what it does.</replaceable>
786 Copyright (C) <replaceable>year</replaceable> <replaceable>name of author</replaceable>
788 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
789 it under the terms of the <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License as published by
790 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
791 (at your option) any later version.
793 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
794 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
795 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
796 <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License for more details.
798 You should have received a copy of the <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License
799 along with this program. If not, see <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</ulink>.
802 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
805 If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like
806 this when it starts in an interactive mode:
809 <replaceable>program</replaceable> Copyright (C) <replaceable>year</replaceable> <replaceable>name of author</replaceable>
810 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type ‘<literal>show w</literal>’.
811 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
812 under certain conditions; type ‘<literal>show c</literal>’ for details.
815 The hypothetical commands ‘<literal>show w</literal>’ and
816 ‘<literal>show c</literal>’ should show the appropriate parts of
817 the General Public License. Of course, your program’s commands might be
818 different; for a GUI interface, you would use an “about box”.
821 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
822 if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if
823 necessary. For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the
824 <acronym>GNU</acronym> <acronym>GPL</acronym>, see <ulink
825 url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</ulink>.
828 The <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License does not permit
829 incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a
830 subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking
831 proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do,
832 use the <acronym>GNU</acronym> Lesser General Public License instead of this
833 License. But first, please read <ulink
834 url="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html</ulink>.