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   1              GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
   2                 Version 2, June 1991
   3  
   4   Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5                         59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
   6   Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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   9                  Preamble
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  59              GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  60     TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  61  
  62    0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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  77  Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
  78  
  79    1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
  80  source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
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  82  copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
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  87  You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
  88  you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
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  90    2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
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  93  above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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  96      stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
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 100      part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
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 102  
 103      c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
 104      when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
 105      interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
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 107      notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
 108      a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
 109      these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
 110      License.  (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
 111      does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
 112      the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
 113  
 114  These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
 115  identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
 116  and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
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 120  on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
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 132  the scope of this License.
 133  
 134    3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
 135  under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
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 171  
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 236  
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 248  Foundation.
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 267  PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
 268  REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
 269  
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 271  WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
 272  REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
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 278  POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
 279  
 280               END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 281  
 282          How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
 283  
 284    If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
 285  possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
 286  free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
 287  
 288    To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
 289  to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
 290  convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
 291  the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
 292  
 293      <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
 294      Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
 295  
 296      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 297      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 298      the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 299      (at your option) any later version.
 300  
 301      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 302      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 303      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 304      GNU General Public License for more details.
 305  
 306      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 307      along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 308      Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 309  
 310  
 311  Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 312  
 313  If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
 314  when it starts in an interactive mode:
 315  
 316      Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
 317      Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
 318      This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
 319      under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
 320  
 321  The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
 322  parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
 323  be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
 324  mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
 325  
 326  You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
 327  school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
 328  necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
 329  
 330    Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
 331    `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
 332  
 333    <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
 334    Ty Coon, President of Vice
 335  
 336  This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
 337  proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
 338  consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
 339  library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
 340  Public License instead of this License.