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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.  
  59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA

  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  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
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 
Library 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.

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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 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 
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   the Program.

   You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring
   a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty 
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2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any 
   portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, 
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   all of these conditions:
   
   a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent 
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      of any change.
      
   b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish,
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   version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
   
10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into 
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    For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software 
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    of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.

**NO WARRANTY**

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, 
    THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT 
    PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. 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. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE 
    DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY 
    SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.


12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED
    TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER 
    PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS
    PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING 
    ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
    ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM 
    (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING
    RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD 
    PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY 
    OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS 
    BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

**END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS**

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