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Each licensee is addressed as "you".<P>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.<P><STRONG>1.</STRONG> 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 Program a copy of this Licensealong with the Program.<P>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.<P><STRONG>2.</STRONG> 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:<P><UL><LI><STRONG>a)</STRONG>     You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices     stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.<P><LI><STRONG>b)</STRONG>     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.<P><LI><STRONG>c)</STRONG>     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.)</UL>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.  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EXCEPT WHENOTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIESPROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSEDOR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OFMERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE ENTIRE RISK ASTO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  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It is safestto attach them to the start of each source file to most effectivelyconvey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at leastthe "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.</P><PRE><VAR>one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.</VAR>Copyright (C) <VAR>yyyy</VAR>  <VAR>name of author</VAR>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 later version.This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY 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.</PRE><P>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.</P><P>If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like thiswhen it starts in an interactive mode:</P><PRE>Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) <VAR>year</VAR> <VAR>name of author</VAR>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.</PRE><P>The hypothetical commands <SAMP>`show w'</SAMP> and <SAMP>`show c'</SAMP> should showthe appropriate parts of the General Public License.  Of course, thecommands you use may be called something other than <SAMP>`show w'</SAMP> and<SAMP>`show c'</SAMP>; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whateversuits your program.</P><P>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necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:</P><PRE>Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyrightinterest in the program `Gnomovision'(which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.<VAR>signature of Ty Coon</VAR>, 1 April 1989Ty Coon, President of Vice</PRE><P>This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program intoproprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you mayconsider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with thelibrary.  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