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791 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
793 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
794 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
795 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
797 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
798 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
799 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
800 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
802 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
803 Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
805 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
806 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
807 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
808 (at your option) any later version.
810 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
811 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
812 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
813 GNU General Public License for more details.
815 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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817 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
820 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
822 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
823 when it starts in an interactive mode:
825 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
826 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
827 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
828 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
830 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
831 parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
832 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
833 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
835 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
836 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
837 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
839 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
840 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
842 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
843 Ty Coon, President of Vice
845 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
846 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
847 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
848 library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
849 Public License instead of this License.
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