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COM-2.US.3-213-856-11(1)

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but

changing it is not allowed.

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.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this

license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.
Also, for each author’s protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone

understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the software is modified by

someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the

original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors’

reputations.
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid

the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses,

in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any

patent must be licensed for everyone’s free use or not licensed at all.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

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