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<sect1>
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<title>How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs</title>
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<para>If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the
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greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this
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is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and
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change under these terms.</para>
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<para>To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It
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is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most
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effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should
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have at least the <quote>copyright</quote> line and a pointer to
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where the full notice is found.</para>
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<programlisting>
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<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
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Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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</programlisting>
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<para>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and
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paper mail.</para>
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<para>If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice
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like this when it starts in an interactive mode:</para>
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<programlisting>
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Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
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Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
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This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
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</programlisting>
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<para>The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show
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the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course,
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the commands you use may be called something other than `show w'
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and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu
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items–whatever suits your program.</para>
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<para>You should also get your employer (if you work as a
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programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a <quote>copyright
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disclaimer</quote> for the program, if necessary. Here is a sample;
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alter the names:</para>
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<programlisting>
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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
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`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
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Ty Coon, President of Vice
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</programlisting>
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<para>This General Public License does not permit incorporating
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your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a
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subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit
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linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is
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what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License
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instead of this License.</para>
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</sect1>
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