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<one line to give 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 redistri-
bute 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 later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it
will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU
General Public License along with this program; if
not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA
Also add information on how to contact you by
electronic and paper mail.
If the program is interactive, make it output a
short notice like this when it starts in an interac-
tive mode:
Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) <year>
<name of author>
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY; for details type 'show w' . This is free
software, 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 parts 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 program.
You should also get your employer (if you work as
a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a
"copyright disclaimer" for the program, if neces-
sary.
Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims 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 of Vice
This General Public License does not permit incor-
porating your program into proprietary programs.
If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking pro-
prietary applications with the library. If this is what
you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public
License instead of this License.
GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL)
Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Founda-
tion, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-
1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute ver-
batim copies of this license document, but chan-
ging it is not allowed.
[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL.
It also counts as the successor of the GNU Library
Public License, version 2, hence the version num-
ber 2.1.]
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