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  7. <H1>GNU General Public License</H1>
  8. <P>
  9. Version 2, June 1991
  10. </P>
  11. <PRE>
  12. Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  13. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
  14. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  15. of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
  16. </PRE>
  17. <H2>Preamble</H2>
  18. <P>
  19. The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
  20. freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
  21. License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
  22. software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
  23. General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
  24. Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
  25. using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
  26. the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
  27. your programs, too.
  28. </P>
  29. <P>
  30. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
  31. price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
  32. have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
  33. this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
  34. if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
  35. in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
  36. </P>
  37. <P>
  38. To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
  39. anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
  40. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
  41. distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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  44. For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
  45. gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
  46. you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
  47. source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
  48. rights.
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  51. We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
  52. (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
  53. distribute and/or modify the software.
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  56. Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
  57. that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
  58. software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
  59. want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
  60. that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
  61. authors' reputations.
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  64. Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
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  67. program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
  68. patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
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  70. <P>
  71. The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
  72. modification follow.
  73. </P>
  74. <H2>TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION</H2>
  75. <P>
  76. <STRONG>0.</STRONG>
  77. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
  78. a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
  79. under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
  80. refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
  81. means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
  82. that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
  83. either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
  84. language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
  85. the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
  86. <P>
  87. Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
  88. covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
  89. running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
  90. is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
  91. Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
  92. Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
  93. <P>
  94. <STRONG>1.</STRONG>
  95. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
  96. source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
  97. conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
  98. copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
  99. notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
  100. and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
  101. along with the Program.
  102. <P>
  103. You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
  104. you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
  105. <P>
  106. <STRONG>2.</STRONG>
  107. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
  108. of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
  109. distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
  110. above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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  113. <LI><STRONG>a)</STRONG>
  114. You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
  115. stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
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  117. <LI><STRONG>b)</STRONG>
  118. You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
  119. whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
  120. part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
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  124. If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
  125. when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
  126. interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
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  129. a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
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  132. does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
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  135. These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
  136. identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
  137. and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
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  142. this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
  143. entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
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  145. Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
  146. your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
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  148. collective works based on the Program.
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  150. In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
  151. with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
  152. a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
  153. the scope of this License.
  154. <P>
  155. <STRONG>3.</STRONG>
  156. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
  157. under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
  158. Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
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  163. Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
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  168. Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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  176. Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
  177. to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
  178. allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
  179. received the program in object code or executable form with such
  180. an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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  182. The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
  183. making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
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  198. <P>
  199. <STRONG>4.</STRONG>
  200. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
  201. except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
  202. otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
  203. void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
  204. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
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  206. parties remain in full compliance.
  207. <P>
  208. <STRONG>5.</STRONG>
  209. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
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  211. distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
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  217. <P>
  218. <STRONG>6.</STRONG>
  219. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
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  224. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
  225. this License.
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  227. <STRONG>7.</STRONG>
  228. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
  229. infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
  230. conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
  231. otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
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  233. distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
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  236. license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
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  241. If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
  242. any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
  243. apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
  244. circumstances.
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  246. It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
  247. patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
  248. such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
  249. integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
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  252. through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
  253. system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
  254. to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
  255. impose that choice.
  256. <P>
  257. This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
  258. be a consequence of the rest of this License.
  259. <P>
  260. <STRONG>8.</STRONG>
  261. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
  262. certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
  263. original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
  264. may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
  265. those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
  266. countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
  267. the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
  268. <P>
  269. <STRONG>9.</STRONG>
  270. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
  271. of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
  272. be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
  273. address new problems or concerns.
  274. <P>
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  276. specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
  277. later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
  278. either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
  279. Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
  280. this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
  281. Foundation.
  282. <P>
  283. <STRONG>10.</STRONG>
  284. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
  285. programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
  286. to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
  287. Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
  288. make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
  289. of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
  290. of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
  291. <P><STRONG>NO WARRANTY</STRONG></P>
  292. <P>
  293. <STRONG>11.</STRONG>
  294. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
  295. FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
  296. OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
  297. PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
  298. OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
  299. MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
  300. TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
  301. PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
  302. REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
  303. <P>
  304. <STRONG>12.</STRONG>
  305. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
  306. WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
  307. REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
  308. INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
  309. OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
  310. TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
  311. YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
  312. PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
  313. POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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