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288 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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294 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
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296 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
297 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
299 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
300 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
302 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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317 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
319 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
320 when it starts in an interactive mode:
322 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
323 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
324 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
325 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
327 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
328 parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
329 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
330 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
332 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
333 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
334 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
336 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
337 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
339 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
340 Ty Coon, President of Vice
342 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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