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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 t he greatest
possible use to the public , the best way to achieve this is to make it free
software which ever yone can redistribute and change under t hese
terms
To do so, attach the fol lowing notices to the program. It is safest to
attach them to the st art of each source file to most effect ively convey the
exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copy right"
line and a pointer to where the full notice is foun d.
<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 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 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any lat er version.
This program is di stributed in the hope that i t 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, writ e to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Fl oor, Boston, MA 02110-
1301 USA.
Also add informati on on how to contact you by electronic and paper
mail.
If the program i s 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; f or
details type `show w'.
This is free s oftware, 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 part s 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 pr ogram.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or
your school, i f any, to sign a "copyright dis claimer" for the program, 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 subr outine library, you
may consider it mor e useful to permit linking propri etary applications
with the librar y. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser
General Public Lice nse instead of this License.
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