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   1                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
   2                       Version 2, June 1991
   3
   4 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
   5 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
   6 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
   7 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
   8
   9                            Preamble
  10
  11  The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
  12freedom to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public
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  18the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
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  20
  21  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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  28  To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
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  30These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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  39  We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
  40(2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
  41distribute and/or modify the software.
  42
  43  Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
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  56  The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
  57modification follow.
  58
  59                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  60   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  61
  62  0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
  63a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
  64under the terms of this General Public License.  The "Program", below,
  65refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
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  72Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
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  77Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
  78
  79  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
  80source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
  81conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
  82copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
  83notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
  84and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
  85along with the Program.
  86
  87You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
  88you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
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  90  2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
  91of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
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  93above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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  95    a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
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  97
  98    b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
  99    whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
 100    part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
 101    parties under the terms of this License.
 102
 103    c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
 104    when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
 105    interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
 106    announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
 107    notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
 108    a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
 109    these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
 110    License.  (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
 111    does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
 112    the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
 113
 114These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
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 116and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
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 133
 134  3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
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 171
 172  4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
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 248Foundation.
 249
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 257
 258                            NO WARRANTY
 259
 260  11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
 261FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN
 262OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
 263PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
 264OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 265MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE ENTIRE RISK AS
 266TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE
 267PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
 268REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
 269
 270  12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
 271WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
 272REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
 273INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
 274OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
 275TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
 276YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
 277PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
 278POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
 279
 280                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 281
 282            How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
 283
 284  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
 285possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
 286free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
 287
 288  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
 289to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
 290convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
 291the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
 292
 293    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
 294    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
 295
 296    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 297    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 298    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 299    (at your option) any later version.
 300
 301    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 302    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 303    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 304    GNU General Public License for more details.
 305
 306    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 307    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 308    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 309
 310Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 311
 312If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
 313when it starts in an interactive mode:
 314
 315    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
 316    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
 317    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
 318    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
 319
 320The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
 321parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
 322be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
 323mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
 324
 325You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
 326school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
 327necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
 328
 329  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
 330  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
 331
 332  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
 333  Ty Coon, President of Vice
 334
 335This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
 336proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
 337consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
 338library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 339Public License instead of this License.
 340