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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 PURPOSE. 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 St, 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 program,
if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
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Manufacturer's Warranty
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in
the program '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
subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit
linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what
you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License
instead of this License.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2.1, February 1999 Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free
Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and
distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but
changing it is not allowed.
[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also
counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License,
version 2, hence the version number 2.1.]
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General
Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to
share and change free software--to make sure the software is
free for all its users.
This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to
some specially designated software packages-- typically
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