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
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
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.
signature of Ty Coon, 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.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 29 June 2007
Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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