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Ifthe Program species a version number of this Licensewhich applies to it and “any later version”, you have theoption of following the terms and conditions either ofthat version or of any later version published by the FreeSoftware Foundation. If the Program does not specifya version number of this License, you may choose anyversion ever published by the Free Software Foundation.If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into10.other free programs whose distribution conditions aredifferent, write to the author to ask for permission. Forsoftware which is copyrighted by the Free SoftwareFoundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; wesometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision willbe guided by the two goals of preserving the free statusof all derivatives of our free software and of promotingthe sharing and reuse of software generally.NO WARRANTYBECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE11.OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FORTHE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BYAPPLICABLE LAW. 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It issafest to attach them to the start of each source le to mosteffectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each leshould have at least the “copyright” line and a pointer to wherethe full notice is found.one line to give the program’s name and an idea of what itdoes.Copyright (C) yyyy name of authorThis program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General PublicLicense as published by the Free Software Foundation;either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any laterversion.This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the impliedwarranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR APARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General PublicLicense for more details.You should have received a copy of the GNU GeneralPublic License along with this program; if not, write to theFree Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, FifthFloor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.Also add information on how to contact you by electronic andpaper mail.If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice likethis when it starts in an interactive mode:Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name ofauthor Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NOWARRANTY; for details type ‘show w’.This is free software, and you are welcome to redistributeit under certain conditions; type ‘show c’ for details.The hypothetical commands ‘show w’ and ‘show c’ shouldshow the appropriate parts of the General Public License.Of course, the commands you use may be called somethingother 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 aprogrammer) or your school, if any, to sign a “copyrightdisclaimer” for the program, if necessary. Here is a sample;alter the names:Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interestin the program ‘Gnomovision’ (which makes passes atcompilers) written by James Hacker.signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989Ty Coon, President of ViceThis General Public License does not permit incorporatingyour program into proprietary programs. If your program is asubroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permitlinking proprietary applications with the library. If this is whatyou want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public Licenseinstead of this License.