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598liability in connection with the Program, unless a warranty or assumption of
599liability accompanies a copy of the Program in return for a fee.
600
601END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
602
603
604How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
605---------------------------------------------
606
607If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use
608to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which
609everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
610
611To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach
612them to the start of each source file to most effectively state the exclusion of
613warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer
614to where the full notice is found.
615
616 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
617 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
618
619 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
620 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
621 Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
622 any later version.
623
624 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
625 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
626 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
627 more details.
628
629 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
630 this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
631
632Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
633
634If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like
635this when it starts in an interactive mode:
636
637 <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
638 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'show w'.
639 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
640 conditions; type 'show c' for details.
641
642The hypothetical commands 'show w' and 'show c' should show the appropriate
643parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands might be
644different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
645
646You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school, if
647any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. For more
648information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
649<<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>>.
650
651The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
652proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider
653it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If
654this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead
655of this License. But first, please read
656<<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>>.