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2                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
3                     Version 1, February 1989
4
5 Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6                    51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
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8 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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11                            Preamble
12
13  The license agreements of most software companies try to keep users
14at the mercy of those companies.  By contrast, our General Public
15License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
16software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.  The
17General Public License applies to the Free Software Foundation's
18software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it.
19You can use it for your programs, too.
20
21  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
22price.  Specifically, the General Public License is designed to make
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25that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free
26programs; and that you know you can do these things.
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28  To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
29anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
30These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
31distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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33  For example, if you distribute copies of a such a program, whether
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38  We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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42  Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
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52                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
53   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
54
55  0. This License Agreement applies to any program or other work which
56contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be
57distributed under the terms of this General Public License.  The
58"Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based
59on the Program" means either the Program or any work containing the
60Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications.  Each
61licensee is addressed as "you".
62
63  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source
64code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
65appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and
66disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this
67General Public License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any
68other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public License
69along with the Program.  You may charge a fee for the physical act of
70transferring a copy.
71
72  2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of
73it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of Paragraph
741 above, provided that you also do the following:
75
76    a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that
77    you changed the files and the date of any change; and
78
79    b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, that
80    in whole or in part contains the Program or any part thereof, either
81    with or without modifications, to be licensed at no charge to all
82    third parties under the terms of this General Public License (except
83    that you may choose to grant warranty protection to some or all
84    third parties, at your option).
85
86    c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when
87    run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use
88    in the simplest and most usual way, to print or display an
89    announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice
90    that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a
91    warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these
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93    Public License.
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95    d) You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a
96    copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in
97    exchange for a fee.
98
99Mere aggregation of another independent work with the Program (or its
100derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring
101the other work under the scope of these terms.
102
103  3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a portion or derivative of
104it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
105Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
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107    a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
108    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
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111    b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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114    corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of
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117    c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the
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119    allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
120    received the program in object code or executable form alone.)
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122Source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
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125exception, it need not include source code for modules which are standard
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130  4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or transfer the
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139  5. By copying, distributing or modifying the Program (or any work based
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170                            NO WARRANTY
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172  9. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
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179PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
180REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
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183WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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185INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
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192                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
193
194        Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
195
196  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
197possible use to humanity, the best way to achieve this is to make it
198free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these
199terms.
200
201  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest to
202attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey
203the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
204"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
205
206    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
207    Copyright (C) 19yy  <name of author>
208
209    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
210    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
211    the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
212    any later version.
213
214    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
215    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
216    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
217    GNU General Public License for more details.
218
219    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
220    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
221    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA  02110-1301 USA
222
223
224Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
225
226If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
227when it starts in an interactive mode:
228
229    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19xx name of author
230    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
231    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
232    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
233
234The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the
235appropriate parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the
236commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show
237c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your
238program.
239
240You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
241school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
242necessary.  Here a sample; alter the names:
243
244  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
245  program `Gnomovision' (a program to direct compilers to make passes
246  at assemblers) written by James Hacker.
247
248  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
249  Ty Coon, President of Vice
250
251That's all there is to it!
252