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12License-Text:
13
14		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
15		       Version 2, June 1991
16
17 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
18                       51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
19 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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21
22			    Preamble
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24  The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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73   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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92  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
93source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
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293		     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
294
295	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
296
297  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
298possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
299free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
300
301  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
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306    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
307    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
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309    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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322
323
324Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
325
326If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
327when it starts in an interactive mode:
328
329    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
330    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
331    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
332    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
333
334The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
335parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
336be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
337mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
338
339You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
340school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
341necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
342
343  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
344  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
345
346  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
347  Ty Coon, President of Vice
348
349This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
350proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
351consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
352library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
353Public License instead of this License.
354