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    <title>How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs</title>

    <para>If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the

    greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this

    is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and

    change under these terms.</para>

    <para>To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It

    is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most

    effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should

    have at least the ``copyright'' line and a pointer to where the

    full notice is found.</para>

    <programlisting>

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

    Copyright (C) 19yy  <name of author>

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

    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

    (at your option) any later version.

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

    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

    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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

    </programlisting>

    <para>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and

    paper mail.</para>

    <para>If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice

    like this when it starts in an interactive mode:</para>

    <programlisting>

    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author

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

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

    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

    </programlisting>

    <para>The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show

    the appropriate parts of the General Public License.  Of course,

    the commands you use may be called something other than `show w'

    and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu

    items–whatever suits your program.</para>

    <para>You should also get your employer (if you work as a

    programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a ``copyright

    disclaimer'' for the program, if necessary.  Here is a sample;

    alter the names:</para>

    <programlisting>

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

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

    <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989

    Ty Coon, President of Vice

    </programlisting>

    <para>This General Public License does not permit incorporating

    your program into proprietary programs.  If your program is a

    subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit

    linking proprietary applications with the library.  If this is

    what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License

    instead of this License.</para>

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