GNU
GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND
MODIFICATION
0. This License applies to any program or other work
which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be
distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program",
below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the
Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright
law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either
verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language.
(Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term
"modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
September 2012
Activities other than copying, distribution and
modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The
act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program
(independent of having been made by running the Program).Whether that is true
depends on what the Program does.
1.
You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the
Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium,provided that you conspicuously and appropriately
publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of
warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the
absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of
this License along with the Program.
You may charge a fee for the physical act of
transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in
exchange for a fee.
2.
You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or
any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above,
provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry
prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date ofany change.
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or
publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or
any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
under the terms of this License.
c) If the modified program normally reads commands
interactively when run, you must cause it, when startedrunning
for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there
is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) andthat users may redistribute the program under these
conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License.
(Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print
such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print
an announcement.)
These requirements apply to the modified work as a
whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves,
then this License,and its
terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate
works. But when you distributethe same sections as
part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the
whole must beon the terms of this License, whose
permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each
and every part regardless of who wrote it.
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim
rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather,the intent is to exercise
the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based
on the Program.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not
based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on
a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work
under the scope of thisLicense.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work
based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms
of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding
machine-readable source code, which must be distributed underthe
terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software
interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at
least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more thanyour cost of physically performing source distribution,
a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily
used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as
to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the
program in object code orexecutable form with such an
offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
The source code for a work means the preferred form
of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete
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code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in
either source orbinary form) with the major
components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the
executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If distribution of executable or object code is made
by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offeringequivalent
access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of
the source code, eventhough third parties are not
compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or
distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License.Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense
or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights
under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from
you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
parties remain in full compliance.
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You are
not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However,
nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its
derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you donot accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or
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acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for
copying, distributing ormodifying the Program or
works based on it.
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Each time
you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient
automatically receivesa license from the original
licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and
conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients'
exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing
compliance by third parties to this License.
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consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any
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License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your
obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a
consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all
those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way
you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from
distribution of the Program.
If any portion of this section is held invalid or
unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is
intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
circumstances.
It is not the purpose of this section to induce you
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sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free softwaredistribution
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generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that
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author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through
any othersystem and a licensee cannot impose that
choice.
This section is intended to make thoroughly clear
what is believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License.
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If the
distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted
in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicitgeographical distribution limitation excluding
those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or amongcountries not thus excluded. In such case, this
License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
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The Free
Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General
Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit
to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or
concerns.
Each version is given a distinguishing version
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to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the
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by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version
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Software Foundation.
10.
If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into
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author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free SoftwareFoundation, write to the Free Software Foundation;
we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two
goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
NO WARRANTY
11.
BECAUSE
THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM,
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN
WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS
IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
12.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR
AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY
MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATEOR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF
THEPOSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be
of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way toachieve
this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change
under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the
program. It is 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 the "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.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free SoftwareFoundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will
be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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 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. Ifthis is
what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this
License.