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Important Notice Concerning the Software

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this
program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth
Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an
interactive mode:

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision 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.

, 1 April 1989 Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary
programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to
permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use
the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.

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[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts as the successor of the
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