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How to apply these terms to your new programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the great-
est possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to
make it free software which everyone can redistribute
and change
under these terms.
To do so, attach the following
notices to the program.
It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effective-
ly convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at
least the "copyright"
line and a pointer to where the full notice is
found.
one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it
does.
Copyright
(C) <year> <name of author>
This program
is free software;
you can redistribute
it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published
by the Free Software
Foundatiom
either version 2 of
the license, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed
in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without
even the implied warranty
of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR-
POSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should
have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street,
Fifth
Floor, Boston,
MA
02110-1301
USA.
Also add information
on how to contact
you by electronic
and
paper mail.
If the program is interactive,
make it output
a short
notice like
this when it starts in an interactive mode:
Gnomovision
version
69, Copyright
(C) year name of author
Gnomovision
comes with
ABSOLUTELY
NO
WARRANTY;
for
details type 'show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome
to redistribute
it under
certain
conditions;
type
'show c' for
details.
The hypothetical
commands
'show w' and 'show c' should show
the appropriate
parts of the General Public License. Of course,
the commands
you use may be called something
other
than
'show w' and 'show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks
or menu
items-whatever
suits your program.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer)
or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright
disclaimer" for the pro-
gram, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
interest in the pro-
gram 'Gnomovision'
(which makes passes at compilers)
written by
James Hacker.
signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
This General Public License does not permit
incorporating
your
program into proprietary
programs. If your program is a subrou-
tine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking pro-
prietary applications
with the library. If this is what you want to
do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this
license.
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