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! 31: Freeware and the free Linux operating system mean <strong>better
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55: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
56: Version 2, June 1991
57:
58: Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59: 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
60: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
61: of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
62:
63: Preamble
64:
65: The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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71: using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
72: the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
73: your programs, too.
74:
75: When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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81:
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84: These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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113: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
114: TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
115:
116: 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
117: a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
118: under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
119: refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
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122: either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
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124: the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
125:
126: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
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128: running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
129: is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
130: Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
131: Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
132:
133: 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
134: source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
135: conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
136: copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
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141: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
142: you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
143:
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148:
149: a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
150: stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
151:
152: b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
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157: c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
158: when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
159: interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
160: announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
161: notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
162: a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
163: these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
164: License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
165: does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
166: the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
167:
168: These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
169: identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
170: and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
171: themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
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174: on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
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177:
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184: with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
185: a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
186: the scope of this License.
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189: under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
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299: either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
300: Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
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322: REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
323:
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325: WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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333:
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335:
336: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
337:
338: If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
339: possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
340: free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
341:
342: To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
343: to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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345: the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
346:
347: <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
348: Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
349:
350: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
351: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
352: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
353: (at your option) any later version.
354:
355: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
356: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
357: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
358: GNU General Public License for more details.
359:
360: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
361: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
362: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
363:
364:
365: Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
366:
367: If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
368: when it starts in an interactive mode:
369:
370: Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
371: Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
372: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
373: under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
374:
375: The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
376: parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
377: be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
378: mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
379:
380: You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
381: school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
382: necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
383:
384: Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
385: `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
386:
387: <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
388: Ty Coon, President of Vice
389:
390: This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
391: proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
392: consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
393: library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
394: Public License instead of this License.
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