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to share and change free software--to make sure the software
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your programs, too.
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sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free
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and that you know you can do these things.
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anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender
the rights.
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you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
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receive or can get the source code. And you must show them
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software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal
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certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for
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and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they
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free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect
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free use or not licensed at all.
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source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that
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that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program
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interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running
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do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as
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