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See the 304*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister GNU General Public License for more details. 305*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 306*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along 307*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 308*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 309*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 310*e66c86a2SRobert WeinmeisterAlso add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. 311*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 312*e66c86a2SRobert WeinmeisterIf the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this 313*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisterwhen it starts in an interactive mode: 314*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 315*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author 316*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. 317*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it 318*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. 319*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 320*e66c86a2SRobert WeinmeisterThe hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate 321*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisterparts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may 322*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisterbe called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be 323*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeistermouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program. 324*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 325*e66c86a2SRobert WeinmeisterYou should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your 326*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisterschool, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if 327*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisternecessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: 328*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 329*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program 330*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. 331*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 332*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 333*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister Ty Coon, President of Vice 334*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeister 335*e66c86a2SRobert WeinmeisterThis General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into 336*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisterproprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may 337*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisterconsider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the 338*e66c86a2SRobert Weinmeisterlibrary. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General 339*e66c86a2SRobert WeinmeisterPublic License instead of this License. 340