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8 <h3><a id="SEC1">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a></h3>
9 <p>
10 Version 2, June 1991
11 </p>
13 <pre>Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
14 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
16 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
17 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
18 </pre>
20 <h3><a id="preamble"></a><a id="SEC2">Preamble</a></h3>
22 <p>
23 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
24 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
25 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
26 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
27 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
28 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
29 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
30 the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
31 your programs, too.
32 </p>
34 <p>
35 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
36 price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
37 have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
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39 if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
40 in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
41 </p>
43 <p>
44 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
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46 These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
47 distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
48 </p>
50 <p>
51 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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56 </p>
58 <p>
59 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
60 (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
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64 <p>
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66 that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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71 </p>
73 <p>
74 Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
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78 patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
79 </p>
81 <p>
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84 </p>
87 <h3><a id="terms"></a><a id="SEC3">TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION</a></h3>
90 <a id="section0"></a><p>
91 <strong>0.</strong>
92 This License applies to any program or other work which contains
93 a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
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98 either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
99 language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
100 the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
101 </p>
104 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
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109 Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
110 </p>
112 <a id="section1"></a><p>
113 <strong>1.</strong>
114 You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
115 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
116 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
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124 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
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128 <a id="section2"></a><p>
129 <strong>2.</strong>
130 You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
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136 <dl>
137 <dt></dt>
138 <dd>
139 <strong>a)</strong>
140 You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
141 stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
142 </dd>
143 <dt></dt>
144 <dd>
145 <strong>b)</strong>
146 You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
147 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
148 part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
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150 </dd>
151 <dt></dt>
152 <dd>
153 <strong>c)</strong>
154 If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
155 when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
156 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
157 announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
158 notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
159 a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
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161 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
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164 </dd>
165 </dl>
168 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
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191 </p>
193 <a id="section3"></a><p>
194 <strong>3.</strong>
195 You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
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197 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
198 </p>
200 <!-- we use this doubled UL to get the sub-sections indented, -->
201 <!-- while making the bullets as unobvious as possible. -->
203 <dl>
204 <dt></dt>
205 <dd>
206 <strong>a)</strong>
207 Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
208 source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
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210 </dd>
211 <dt></dt>
212 <dd>
213 <strong>b)</strong>
214 Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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221 <dt></dt>
222 <dd>
223 <strong>c)</strong>
224 Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
225 to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
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229 </dd>
230 </dl>
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251 </p>
253 <a id="section4"></a><p>
254 <strong>4.</strong>
255 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
256 except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
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264 <a id="section5"></a><p>
265 <strong>5.</strong>
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276 <a id="section6"></a><p>
277 <strong>6.</strong>
278 Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
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285 </p>
287 <a id="section7"></a><p>
288 <strong>7.</strong>
289 If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
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328 <a id="section8"></a><p>
329 <strong>8.</strong>
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339 <a id="section9"></a><p>
340 <strong>9.</strong>
341 The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
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354 Foundation.
355 </p>
357 <a id="section10"></a><p>
358 <strong>10.</strong>
359 If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
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365 of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
366 </p>
368 <a id="section11"></a><p><strong>NO WARRANTY</strong></p>
371 <strong>11.</strong>
372 BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
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380 REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
381 </p>
383 <a id="section12"></a><p>
384 <strong>12.</strong>
385 IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
386 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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394 </p>
396 <h3>END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS</h3>
398 <h3><a id="howto"></a><a id="SEC4">How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs</a></h3>
401 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
402 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
403 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
404 </p>
407 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
408 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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410 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
411 </p>
413 <pre><var>one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.</var>
414 Copyright (C) <var>yyyy</var> <var>name of author</var>
416 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
417 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
418 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
419 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
421 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
422 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
423 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
424 GNU General Public License for more details.
426 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
427 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
428 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
429 </pre>
432 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
433 </p>
436 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
437 when it starts in an interactive mode:
438 </p>
440 <pre>Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) <var>year</var> <var>name of author</var>
441 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
442 type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome
443 to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c'
444 for details.
445 </pre>
448 The hypothetical commands <samp>`show w'</samp> and <samp>`show c'</samp> should show
449 the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the
450 commands you use may be called something other than <samp>`show w'</samp> and
451 <samp>`show c'</samp>; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever
452 suits your program.
453 </p>
456 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
457 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
458 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
459 </p>
462 <pre>Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
463 interest in the program `Gnomovision'
464 (which makes passes at compilers) written
465 by James Hacker.
467 <var>signature of Ty Coon</var>, 1 April 1989
468 Ty Coon, President of Vice
469 </pre>
472 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
473 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
474 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
475 library. If this is what you want to do, use the
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