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   2"This software program is licensed subject to the GNU General Public License 
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 282How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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 284If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest 
 285possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free 
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 312If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when 
 313it starts in an interactive mode: 
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 315Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision comes 
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 317software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; 
 318type 'show c' for details.
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 320The hypothetical commands 'show w' and 'show c' should show the appropriate 
 321parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be 
 322called something other than 'show w' and 'show c'; they could even be 
 323mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program. 
 324
 325You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your 
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 328
 329Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program 
 330'Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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 332signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
 333Ty Coon, President of Vice
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 335This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into 
 336proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may 
 337consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the 
 338library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public 
 339License instead of this License.
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