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280*9e150176SJana Deutschländer                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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282*9e150176SJana Deutschländer            How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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284*9e150176SJana Deutschländer  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
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288*9e150176SJana Deutschländer  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
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290*9e150176SJana Deutschländerconvey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
291*9e150176SJana Deutschländerthe "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
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293*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
294*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
295*9e150176SJana Deutschländer
296*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
297*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
298*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
299*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    (at your option) any later version.
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301*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
302*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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306*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
307*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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309*9e150176SJana Deutschländer
310*9e150176SJana DeutschländerAlso add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
311*9e150176SJana Deutschländer
312*9e150176SJana DeutschländerIf the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
313*9e150176SJana Deutschländerwhen it starts in an interactive mode:
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315*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
316*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
317*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
318*9e150176SJana Deutschländer    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
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320*9e150176SJana DeutschländerThe hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
321*9e150176SJana Deutschländerparts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
322*9e150176SJana Deutschländerbe called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
323*9e150176SJana Deutschländermouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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325*9e150176SJana DeutschländerYou should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
326*9e150176SJana Deutschländerschool, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
327*9e150176SJana Deutschländernecessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
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329*9e150176SJana Deutschländer  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
330*9e150176SJana Deutschländer  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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332*9e150176SJana Deutschländer  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
333*9e150176SJana Deutschländer  Ty Coon, President of Vice
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335*9e150176SJana DeutschländerThis General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
336*9e150176SJana Deutschländerproprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
337*9e150176SJana Deutschländerconsider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
338*9e150176SJana Deutschländerlibrary.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
339*9e150176SJana DeutschländerPublic License instead of this License.
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