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+                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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+                       Version 2, June 1991
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+ Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., <http://fsf.org/>
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+ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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+ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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+ of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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+                            Preamble
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+  The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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+freedom to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public
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+License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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+software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.  This
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+General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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+using it.  (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
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+                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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+    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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+    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year 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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+  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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