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Appendix B Gnu General Public License

Gnu General Public License

Version 2, June 1991

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Everyoneis permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this

license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

Theli censes for most software are designed to take away your freedom to

share and change it. Byco ntrast, the GNU General Public License is

intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software—

to make sure thes oftwareis free for all its users. This General Public

License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software an d

to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other

Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Lib rary

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

thatyouknowyoucandothesethings.

To protect your rights, we need to make restriction s that forbid anyone to

deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These

restrictionstranslate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute

copies ofthe software, or if you modify it.

For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whe ther 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)

offeryou this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute

and/or modify the software.

Also, for each author'sprotection and ours, we want to make certain that

everyone understands that there is no warranty for this fr ee software. If

the softwareis modified by someone else and passed on, we want its

recipientsto know that what they have is not the original, so that any

problemsintroduced by others will not reflect on the original authors'

reputations.

Finally, anyfree program is threatened constantly by software patents.

We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free progra m will

individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program

proprietary. Toprev ent this, we have made it clear that any patent must

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The precise termsand conditions for copying, distribution and

modificationfollow.

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Terms andconditions for copying, distribution and modification.

0. This Licenseapplies to any program or other work which contains a

noticeplaced by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under

the terms ofthis General Public License. The “Program,”below, refers

to any such program or work, and a “workbasedontheProgram”means