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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
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free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies
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When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses
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free use or not licensed at all.
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portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter,
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outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the