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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 1
February 1989
Copyright (C) 1989
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
675 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
PREAMBLE
The license agreements of most software companies try to keep users at the
mercy of those companies. By contrast, our General Public License is
intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to
make sure the software is free for all users. The General Public License
applies to the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program
whose authors commit to using it. You can use it for your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
Specifically, the General Public License is designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to give away or sell copies of free software, that you
receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the
software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you
can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to
deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These
restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or
for a free, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You
make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must
tell them their rights.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2)
offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
distribute, and/or modify the software.
Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that
everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If
the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its
recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any
problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors'
reputations.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution, and
modification follow.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION, AND MODIFICATION
0. This License Agreement 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 the Program or any work containing the Program or a portion
of it, either verbatim or with modifications. Each licensee is addressed
as "you."
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source
code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and
disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this
General Public License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any
other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public License along
with the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act of
transferring a copy.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it,
and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of Paragraph 1
above, provided that you also do the following:
(a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that
you changed the files and the date of any change; and
(b) cause the whole of the work that you distribute or publish, that
in whole or in part contains the Program or any part thereof, either
with or without modifications, to be licensed at no charge to all
third parties under the terms of this General Public License (except
that you may choose to grant warranty protection to some or all third
parties, at your option).
(c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when
run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use
in the simplest and most usual way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice
that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a
warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these
conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this General
Public License.
(d) You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy,
and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a
fee.
Mere aggregation of another independent work with the Program (or its
derivative) on a volume of storage or distribution medium does not bring
the other work under the scope of these terms.
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it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
(a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Paragraphs 1
and 2 above; or,
(b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years,
to give any third party free (except for a nominal charge for the cost
of distribution) a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding
source code, to be distributed under the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2
above; or,
(c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the
corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received
the program in object code or executable form alone.)
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exception, it need not include source code for modules which are standard
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NO WARRANTY
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for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when
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including any general, special, incidental, or consequential damages
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possibility of such damages.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
APPENDIX
HOW TO APPLY THESE TERMS TO YOUR NEW PROGRAMS
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to humanity, 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 effectively 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.
Copyright (C)
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 Foundation; either version 1, 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 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:
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
675 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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)
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" could 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):
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
"Gnomovision" (a program to direct compilers to make passes at
assemblers) written by James Hacker.
, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
That's all there is to it!