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643 ify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as pub‐
644 lished by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
645 License, or (at your option) any later version.
646 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
648 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
649 CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Gen‐
650 eral Public License for more details.
651 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
653 along with this program. If not, see
654 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
655 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper
657 mail.
658 If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice
660 like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
661 <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
663 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type
664 “show w”. This is free software, and you are welcome to redis‐
665 tribute it under certain conditions; type “show c” for details.
666 The hypothetical commands “show w” and “show c” should show the appro‐
668 priate parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's
669 commands might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an
670 “about box”.
671 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or
673 school, if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if
674 necessary. For more information on this, and how to apply and follow
675 the GNU GPL, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
676 The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your pro‐
678 gram into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine
679 library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
680 applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the
681 GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License. But first,
682 please read <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
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