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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 () 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.

Terms & conditions for copying, distribution, & 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: