1 | GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
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2 | Version 1, February 1989 |
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4 | Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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5 | 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA |
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6 | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies |
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7 | of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. |
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8 | |
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9 | Preamble |
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11 | The license agreements of most software companies try to keep users |
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12 | at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our General Public |
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13 | License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free |
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14 | software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. The |
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15 | General Public License applies to the Free Software Foundation's |
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16 | software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. |
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17 | You can use it for your programs, too. |
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18 | |
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19 | When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not |
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20 | price. Specifically, the General Public License is designed to make |
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21 | sure that you have the freedom to give away or sell copies of free |
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22 | software, that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, |
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23 | that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free |
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24 | programs; and that you know you can do these things. |
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25 | |
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26 | To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid |
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27 | anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. |
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28 | These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you |
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29 | distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it. |
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30 | |
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31 | For example, if you distribute copies of a such a program, whether |
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32 | gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that |
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33 | you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the |
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34 | source code. And you must tell them their rights. |
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35 | |
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36 | We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and |
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37 | (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, |
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38 | distribute and/or modify the software. |
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39 | |
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40 | Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain |
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41 | that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free |
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42 | software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we |
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43 | want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so |
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44 | that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original |
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45 | authors' reputations. |
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46 | |
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47 | The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and |
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48 | modification follow. |
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49 | |
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50 | GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
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51 | TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION |
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52 | |
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53 | 0. This License Agreement applies to any program or other work which |
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54 | contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be |
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55 | distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The |
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56 | "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based |
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57 | on the Program" means either the Program or any work containing the |
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58 | Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications. Each |
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59 | licensee is addressed as "you". |
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60 | |
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61 | 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source |
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62 | code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and |
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63 | appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and |
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64 | disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this |
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65 | General Public License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any |
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66 | other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public License |
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67 | along with the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act of |
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68 | transferring a copy. |
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69 | |
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70 | 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of |
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71 | it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of Paragraph |
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72 | 1 above, provided that you also do the following: |
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73 | |
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74 | a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that |
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75 | you changed the files and the date of any change; and |
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76 | |
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77 | b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, that |
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78 | in whole or in part contains the Program or any part thereof, either |
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79 | with or without modifications, to be licensed at no charge to all |
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80 | third parties under the terms of this General Public License (except |
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81 | that you may choose to grant warranty protection to some or all |
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82 | third parties, at your option). |
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83 | |
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84 | c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when |
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85 | run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use |
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86 | in the simplest and most usual way, to print or display an |
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87 | announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice |
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88 | that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a |
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89 | warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these |
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90 | conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this General |
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91 | Public License. |
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92 | |
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93 | d) You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a |
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94 | copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in |
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95 | exchange for a fee. |
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96 | |
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97 | Mere aggregation of another independent work with the Program (or its |
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98 | derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring |
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99 | the other work under the scope of these terms. |
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100 | |
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101 | 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a portion or derivative of |
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102 | it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of |
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103 | Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: |
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104 | |
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105 | a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable |
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106 | source code, which must be distributed under the terms of |
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107 | Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or, |
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108 | |
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109 | b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three |
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110 | years, to give any third party free (except for a nominal charge |
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111 | for the cost of distribution) a complete machine-readable copy of the |
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112 | corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of |
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113 | Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or, |
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115 | c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the |
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116 | corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is |
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117 | allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you |
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118 | received the program in object code or executable form alone.) |
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119 | |
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120 | Source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making |
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121 | modifications to it. For an executable file, complete source code means |
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122 | all the source code for all modules it contains; but, as a special |
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123 | exception, it need not include source code for modules which are standard |
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124 | libraries that accompany the operating system on which the executable |
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125 | file runs, or for standard header files or definitions files that |
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126 | accompany that operating system. |
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127 | |
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128 | 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or transfer the |
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129 | Program except as expressly provided under this General Public License. |
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130 | Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or transfer |
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131 | the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights to use |
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132 | the Program under this License. However, parties who have received |
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133 | copies, or rights to use copies, from you under this General Public |
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134 | License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties |
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135 | remain in full compliance. |
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136 | |
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137 | 5. By copying, distributing or modifying the Program (or any work based |
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138 | on the Program) you indicate your acceptance of this license to do so, |
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139 | and all its terms and conditions. |
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140 | |
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141 | 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the |
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142 | Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original |
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143 | licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these |
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144 | terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the |
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145 | recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. |
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146 | |
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147 | 7. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions |
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148 | of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will |
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149 | be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to |
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150 | address new problems or concerns. |
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152 | Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program |
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153 | specifies a version number of the license which applies to it and "any |
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154 | later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions |
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155 | either of that version or of any later version published by the Free |
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156 | Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of |
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157 | the license, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software |
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158 | Foundation. |
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159 | |
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160 | 8. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free |
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161 | programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author |
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162 | to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free |
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163 | Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes |
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164 | make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals |
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165 | of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and |
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166 | of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. |
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167 | |
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168 | NO WARRANTY |
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169 | |
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170 | 9. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY |
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171 | FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN |
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172 | OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES |
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173 | PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED |
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174 | OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF |
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175 | MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS |
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176 | TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE |
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177 | PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, |
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178 | REPAIR OR CORRECTION. |
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179 | |
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180 | 10. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING |
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181 | WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR |
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182 | REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, |
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183 | INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING |
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184 | OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED |
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185 | TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY |
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186 | YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER |
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187 | PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE |
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188 | POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. |
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189 | |
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190 | END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS |
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191 | |
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192 | Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs |
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193 | |
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194 | If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest |
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195 | possible use to humanity, the best way to achieve this is to make it |
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196 | free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these |
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197 | terms. |
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198 | |
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199 | To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to |
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200 | attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey |
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201 | the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the |
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202 | "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. |
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203 | |
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204 | <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> |
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205 | Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author> |
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206 | |
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207 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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208 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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209 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) |
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210 | any later version. |
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211 | |
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212 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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213 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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214 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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215 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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216 | |
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217 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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218 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, |
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219 | Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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220 | |
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221 | Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. |
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222 | |
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223 | If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this |
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224 | when it starts in an interactive mode: |
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225 | |
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226 | Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19xx name of author |
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227 | Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. |
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228 | This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it |
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229 | under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. |
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230 | |
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231 | The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the |
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232 | appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the |
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233 | commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show |
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234 | c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your |
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235 | program. |
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236 | |
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237 | You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your |
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238 | school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if |
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239 | necessary. Here a sample; alter the names: |
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240 | |
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241 | Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the |
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242 | program `Gnomovision' (a program to direct compilers to make passes |
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243 | at assemblers) written by James Hacker. |
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244 | |
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245 | <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 |
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246 | Ty Coon, President of Vice |
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247 | |
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248 | That's all there is to it! |
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