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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it possible use to the public, we recommend making it free software that
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms. everyone can redistribute and change. You can do so by permitting
redistribution under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of the
ordinary General Public License).
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library. It is
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> <one line to give the library's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
(at your option) any later version. version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
GNU General Public License for more details. Lesser General Public License for more details.
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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; 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. 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 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 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
Ty Coon, President of Vice Ty Coon, President of Vice
This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into That's all there is to it!
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 Library General
Public License instead of this License.