1 2 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 3 Version 1, February 1989 4 5 Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 6 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 7 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies 8 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 9 10 Preamble 11 12 The license agreements of most software companies try to keep users 13at the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our General Public 14License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free 15software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. The 16General Public License applies to the Free Software Foundation's 17software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. 18You can use it for your programs, too. 19 20 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not 21price. 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This License Agreement applies to any program or other work which 55contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be 56distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The 57"Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based 58on the Program" means either the Program or any work containing the 59Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications. Each 60licensee is addressed as "you". 61 62 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source 63code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and 64appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and 65disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this 66General Public License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any 67other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public License 68along with the Program. 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It is safest to 201attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey 202the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the 203"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. 204 205 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> 206 Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author> 207 208 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 209 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 210 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) 211 any later version. 212 213 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 214 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 215 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 216 GNU General Public License for more details. 217 218 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 219 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 220 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 221 222Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. 223 224If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this 225when it starts in an interactive mode: 226 227 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19xx name of author 228 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. 229 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it 230 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. 231 232The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the 233appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the 234commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show 235c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your 236program. 237 238You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your 239school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if 240necessary. Here a sample; alter the names: 241 242 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the 243 program `Gnomovision' (a program to direct compilers to make passes 244 at assemblers) written by James Hacker. 245 246 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 247 Ty Coon, President of Vice 248 249That's all there is to it! 250