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If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest
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possible use to the public, we recommend making it free software that
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everyone can redistribute and change. You can do so by permitting
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redistribution under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of the
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ordinary General Public License).
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To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library. It is
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safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
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"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
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one line to give the library's name and an idea of what it does.
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Copyright (C) year name of author
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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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option) any later version.
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This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public
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License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
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along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
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You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
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school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if
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necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in
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the library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written
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by James Random Hacker.
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signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1990
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Ty Coon, President of Vice
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That's all there is to it!
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