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at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to
where the full notice is found.
one line to give the program's name and a brief
idea of what it does. Copyright (C)
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., 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 (C) year
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 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:
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
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.
GNU Lesser General Public License
LGPL)
Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software
Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute
verbatim copies of this license document, but
changing it is not allowed.
[This is the first released version of the Lesser
GPL. It also counts as the successor of the GNU
Library Public License, version 2, hence the
version number 2.1.]
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