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How to Apply These Ter ms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the be st way to achieve this is to make it free
software which ever yone can redistribute and change un der these
terms
To do so, attach the fol lowing notices to the progr am. It is safest to
attach them to the start of each source file to most eff ectively convey t he
exclusion of warranty; and each file shoul d have at least the "copyright"
line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
<one line to g ive the program's name and a brief idea of what it
does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is f ree softwar e; you can redistri bute i t and/or modify i t
under the terms of the GNU General Publ ic Lic ense as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any lat er version.
This program is di stributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even t he implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have recei ved a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, wri te to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fif th Floor, Boston, MA 02110-
1301 USA.
Also add informati on on how to contact you by elect ronic and paper
mail.
If the program is inter active, make it output a short notice like this w hen
it starts in an interactive mode:
Gnomovision version 69 , Copyright (C) year name of author
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; f or
details type `show w'.
This is free s oftware, and you are welco me to redistribute it under
certain conditions; type `show c' for details .
The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show t he
appropriate part s of the General Public Licen se. Of course, the
commands you use may be called something other th an `show w' and
`show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--what ever
suits your pr ogram.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a progr ammer) or
your school, i f any, to sign a "copyrigh t disclaimer" for the progr am, if
necessary. Here i s a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby dis claims 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 o f Vice
This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
into proprietar y programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
may consider it mor e useful to permit linking proprietary applications
with the librar y. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser
General Public Lice nse instead of this Licens e.
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