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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS
AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING,
DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. This License applies to any program or other work which
contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may
be distributed under the terms of this General Public License.
The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work,
and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program
or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a
work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim
or with modifications and/or translated into another language.
(Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the
term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
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act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output
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on what the Program does.
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the
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provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on
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and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the
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b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish,
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else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users
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telling the user how to view a copy of this License.
(Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not
normally print such an announcement, your work based on
the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
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of who wrote it.
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or
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In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on
the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the
Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium
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under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you
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years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than
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interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to
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