| # GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
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| Version 2, June 1991 |
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| Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - |
| Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA |
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| Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license |
| document, but changing it is not allowed. |
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| ## Preamble |
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| The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share |
| and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to |
| guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the |
| software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to |
| most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose |
| authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is |
| covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it |
| to your programs, too. |
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| When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our |
| General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to |
| distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for |
| a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must |
| make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must |
| show them these terms so they know their rights. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. |
| We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will |
| individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program |
| proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must |
| be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. |
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| The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification |
| follow. |
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| ## TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION |
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| **0.** This License 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 either the Program or |
| any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the |
| Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or |
| translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included |
| without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as |
| "you". |
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| Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered |
| by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is |
| not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its |
| contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been |
| made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program |
| does. |
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| **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 License |
| and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the |
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| 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. |
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| **2.** You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, |
| thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such |
| modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you |
| also meet all of these conditions: |
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| - **a)** You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating |
| that you changed the files and the date of any change. |
| - **b)** You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole |
| or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to |
| be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of |
| this License. |
| - **c)** If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when |
| run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the |
| most ordinary 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 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does |
| not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is |
| not required to print an announcement.) |
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| These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable |
| sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably |
| considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, |
| and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as |
| separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole |
| which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on |
| the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the |
| entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. |
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| Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your |
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| right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on |
| the Program. |
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| In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with |
| the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or |
| distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this |
| License. |
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| **3.** You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under |
| Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and |
| 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: |
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| - **a)** Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source |
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| give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically |
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| and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, |
| - **c)** Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to |
| distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for |
| noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object |
| code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b |
| above.) |
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| The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making |
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| source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, |
| even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the |
| object code. |
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| **4.** You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except |
| as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, |
| modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically |
| terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received |
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| terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. |
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| **7.** If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent |
| infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), |
| conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) |
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| the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy |
| simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent |
| obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. |
| For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution |
| of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through |
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| refrain entirely from distribution of the Program. |
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| If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any |
| particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and |
| the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances. |
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| It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or |
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| distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that |
| choice. |
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| This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a |
| consequence of the rest of this License. |
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| **8.** If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain |
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| geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that |
| distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In |
| such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body |
| of this License. |
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| **9.** The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of |
| the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be |
| similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address |
| new problems or concerns. |
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| Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program |
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| version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of |
| that version or of any later version published by the Free Software |
| Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, |
| you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. |
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| **10.** If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free |
| programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to |
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| Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make |
| exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals of |
| preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of |
| promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. |
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| **NO WARRANTY** |
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| **11.** BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY |
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| YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. |
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| INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING |
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| THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), |
| EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH |
| DAMAGES. |