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Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of
authorGnomovision 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
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If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
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do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead
of this License.
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GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.,
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[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It
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License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.]
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