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Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your

freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General

Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share

and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all

its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free

Software Foundation’s software and to any other program whose

authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation

software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License

instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not

price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that

you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and

charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or

can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use

pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do

these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid

anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the

rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for

you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.

For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether

gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that

you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get

the source code. And you must show them these terms so they

know their rights.