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                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

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                       Version 2, June 1991

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 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,

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 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

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 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies

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 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

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freedom to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public

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License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free

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software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.  This

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General Public License applies to most of the Free Software

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Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to

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using it.  (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by

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the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to

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your programs, too.

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  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not

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price.  Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you

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have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for

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this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it

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if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it

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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

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anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.

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These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you

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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

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gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that

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you have.  You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the

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source code.  And you must show them these terms so they know their

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rights.

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  We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and

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(2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,

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distribute and/or modify the software.

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  Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain

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that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free

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software.  If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we

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want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so

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that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original

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authors' reputations.

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  Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software

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patents.  We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free

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program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the

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program proprietary.  To prevent this, we have made it clear that any

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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

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modification follow.

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                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

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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

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a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed

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under the terms of this General Public License.  The "Program", below,

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refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"

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means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:

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that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,

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either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another

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language.  (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in

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the term "modification".)  Each licensee is addressed as "you".

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Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not

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covered by this License; they are outside its scope.  The act of

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running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program

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is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the

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Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).

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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

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source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you

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conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate

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copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the

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notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;

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and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License

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along with the Program.

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You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and

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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

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of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and

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distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1

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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

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    stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.

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    c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively

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These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If

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this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the

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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

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your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to

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exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or

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collective works based on the Program.

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In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program

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with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of

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a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under

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the scope of this License.

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  3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,

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under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of

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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

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    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections

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    1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

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    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three

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    years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your

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    cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete

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    machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be

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    distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium

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    customarily used for software interchange; or,

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    c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer

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    to distribute corresponding source code.  (This alternative is

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    received the program in object code or executable form with such

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    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

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making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source

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code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any

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associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to

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control compilation and installation of the executable.  However, as a

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special exception, the source code distributed need not include

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anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary

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form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the

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operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component

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If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering

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distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not

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distribute the Program or its derivative works.  These actions are

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Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the

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You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to

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conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or

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distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this

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may not distribute the Program at all.  For example, if a patent

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all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then

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If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under

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apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other

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circumstances.

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It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any

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patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any

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such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the

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integrity of the free software distribution system, which is

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This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to

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of the General Public License from time to time.  Such new versions will

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be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to

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later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions

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either of that version or of any later version published by the Free

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Software Foundation.  If the Program does not specify a version number of

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  10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free

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programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author

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Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes

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make exceptions for this.  Our decision will be guided by the two goals

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of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and

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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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FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN

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OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES

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PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED

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OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF

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MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE ENTIRE RISK AS

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TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE

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PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,

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REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

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  12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING

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WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR

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REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,

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INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING

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OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED

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TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY

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YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER

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PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE

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                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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            How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

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  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest

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possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it

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free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.

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  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest

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to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively

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convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least

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the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.

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    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>

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    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

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    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

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    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

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Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

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If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this

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    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author

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    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.

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    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

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The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate

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be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be

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mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.

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You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your

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school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if

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necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:

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  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program

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  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

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  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989

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  Ty Coon, President of Vice

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This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into

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proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may

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consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the

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library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General

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Public License instead of this License.

+Preliminary notes:
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+1) The majority of code in the VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) is
+copyrighted by Oracle Corporation. This code is combined with third-party code
+that was originally released under licenses which the Free Software Foundation
+considers incompatible with the GPL, such as the Apache License 2.0, the OpenSSL
+license, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and the Slirp license. (Please see the
+VirtualBox User Manual for a complete list of third-party code and their
+licenses.) As a special exception to the terms and conditions of the GPL listed
+below, Oracle gives you explicit permission to combine its GPL code contained in
+VirtualBox OSE with third-party code under the aforementioned licenses. You may
+copy and distribute such a combination provided that you adhere to the terms and
+conditions of all of the GPL and the licenses of the third-party code; in
+particular, you must include the source code of the entire combination insofar
+as the GPL requires distribution of source code.
+
+2) The GPL listed below does not bind software which uses VirtualBox services by
+merely linking to VirtualBox libraries so long as all VirtualBox interfaces used
+by that software are multi-licensed. A VirtualBox interface is deemed
+multi-licensed if it is declared in a VirtualBox header file that is licensed
+under both the GPL version 2 (below) *and* the Common Development and
+Distribution License Version 1.0 (CDDL), as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file.
+In other words, calling such a multi-licensed interface is merely considered
+normal use of VirtualBox and does not turn the calling code into a derived work
+of VirtualBox. In particular, this applies to code that wants to extend
+VirtualBox by way of the Extension Pack mechanism declared in the ExtPack.h
+header file.
+
+3) Whoever creates or distributes a derived work based on VirtualBox OSE is not
+obligated to grant the above exceptions for such a version. The GPL allows for
+releasing a modified version without the above exception; in addition, Oracle
+hereby also allows you to release a modified version which carries forward these
+exceptions.
+
+Oracle Corporation
+
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+ Version 2, June 1991
+
+ Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
+ of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+ Preamble
+
+ 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 Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
+your programs, too.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
+modification follow.
+
+ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+ TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
+
+ 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".
+
+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.
+
+ 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 Program a copy of this License
+along with the Program.
+
+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.
+
+ 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:
+
+ 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.)
+
+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.
+
+Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
+your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
+exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
+collective works based on the Program.
+
+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.
+
+ 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:
+
+ a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
+ source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
+ 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
+
+ b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
+ years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
+ cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
+ machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
+ distributed under the terms of Sections 1 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.)
+
+The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
+making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
+code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
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+ This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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+
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Index: /trunk/doc/License-gpl-2.0.txt =================================================================== --- /trunk/doc/License-gpl-2.0.txt (revision 35198) +++ /trunk/doc/License-gpl-2.0.txt (revision 35199) @@ -1,11 +1,50 @@ - GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE - Version 2, June 1991 - - Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA +Preliminary notes: + +1) The majority of code in the VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) is +copyrighted by Oracle Corporation. This code is combined with third-party code +that was originally released under licenses which the Free Software Foundation +considers incompatible with the GPL, such as the Apache License 2.0, the OpenSSL +license, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and the Slirp license. (Please see the +VirtualBox User Manual for a complete list of third-party code and their +licenses.) As a special exception to the terms and conditions of the GPL listed +below, Oracle gives you explicit permission to combine its GPL code contained in +VirtualBox OSE with third-party code under the aforementioned licenses. You may +copy and distribute such a combination provided that you adhere to the terms and +conditions of all of the GPL and the licenses of the third-party code; in +particular, you must include the source code of the entire combination insofar +as the GPL requires distribution of source code. + +2) The GPL listed below does not bind software which uses VirtualBox services by +merely linking to VirtualBox libraries so long as all VirtualBox interfaces used +by that software are multi-licensed. A VirtualBox interface is deemed +multi-licensed if it is declared in a VirtualBox header file that is licensed +under both the GPL version 2 (below) *and* the Common Development and +Distribution License Version 1.0 (CDDL), as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file. +In other words, calling such a multi-licensed interface is merely considered +normal use of VirtualBox and does not turn the calling code into a derived work +of VirtualBox. In particular, this applies to code that wants to extend +VirtualBox by way of the Extension Pack mechanism declared in the ExtPack.h +header file. + +3) Whoever creates or distributes a derived work based on VirtualBox OSE is not +obligated to grant the above exceptions for such a version. The GPL allows for +releasing a modified version without the above exception; in addition, Oracle +hereby also allows you to release a modified version which carries forward these +exceptions. + +Oracle Corporation + +--- + + + GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE + Version 2, June 1991 + + Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. - Preamble + Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your @@ -16,5 +55,5 @@ 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 Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to +the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too. @@ -57,5 +96,5 @@ modification follow. - GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE + GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION @@ -256,5 +295,5 @@ of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. - NO WARRANTY + NO WARRANTY 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY @@ -278,7 +317,7 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. - END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS - - How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs + END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS + + How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest @@ -304,7 +343,8 @@ 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., - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. + 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA + Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.