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		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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		       Version 2, June 1991
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 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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                       59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
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 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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			    Preamble
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  The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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freedom to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public
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License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.  This
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General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
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using it.  (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
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the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
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your programs, too.
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  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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price.  Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
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have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
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this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
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if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
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in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
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  To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
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anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
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These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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  For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
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you have.  You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
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source code.  And you must show them these terms so they know their
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rights.
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  We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
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(2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
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distribute and/or modify the software.
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that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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software.  If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
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want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
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authors' reputations.
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patents.  We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
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program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
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program proprietary.  To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
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  The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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modification follow.
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		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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  0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
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means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
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either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
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language.  (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
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is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
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Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
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Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
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a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
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the scope of this License.
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be a consequence of the rest of this License.
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FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN
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OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
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PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
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OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
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REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
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WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
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	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
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free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
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to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
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the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
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    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
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when it starts in an interactive mode:
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    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
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    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
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The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
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be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
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mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
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school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
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necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
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  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
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  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
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  Ty Coon, President of Vice
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proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
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library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
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Public License instead of this License.