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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it 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.
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
Ocopyright� line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
<One line to give the programOs name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright ? 19yy <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify is 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode.
Gnomovision version 69, Copyright ? 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.
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.
You should also get your employer (if you works 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:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the 'Gnomovision' (which makes passes
at compilers) written by James Hacker.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
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. |
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