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50\gpltoplevel{The GNU General Public License}
51
52
53The following is the text of the GNU General Public License, under the terms
54of which this software is distrubuted.
55
56\vspace{12pt}
57
58\begin{center}
59\textbf{GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE} \\
60Version 2, June 1991
61\end{center}
62
63\begin{center}
64Copyright \copyright\ 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. \\
6559 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
66
67Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies \\
68of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
69\end{center}
70
71
72\gplsec{Preamble}
73
74The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to
75share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended
76to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software---to make sure
77the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies
78to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program
79whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation
80software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You
81can apply it to your programs, too.
82
83When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our
84General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom
85to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you
86wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you
87can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that
88you know you can do these things.
89
90To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to
91deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These
92restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute
93copies of the software, or if you modify it.
94
95For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or
96for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You
97must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you
98must show them these terms so they know their rights.
99
100We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2)
101offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute
102and/or modify the software.
103
104Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that
105everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If
106the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its
107recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any
108problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors'
109reputations.
110
111Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We
112wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will
113individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program
114proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be
115licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
116
117The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification
118follow.
119
120
121\gplsec{Terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification}
122
123\begin{enumerate}
124
125\makeatletter \setcounter{\@listctr}{-1} \makeatother
126
127\item [0.] This License applies to any program or other work which contains a
128 notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
129 under the terms of this General Public License. The ``Program'',
130 below, refers to any such program or work, and a ``work based on the
131 Program'' means either the Program or any derivative work under
132 copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a
133 portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated
134 into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without
135 limitation in the term ``modification''.) Each licensee is addressed
136 as ``you''.
137
138 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
139 covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
140 running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
141 is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program
142 (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that
143 is true depends on what the Program does.
144
145\item [1.] You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
146 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
147 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
148 copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
149 notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
150 and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
151 along with the Program.
152
153 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
154 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
155
156\item [2.] You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
157 of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
158 distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
159 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
160
161 \begin{enumerate}
162
163 \item [(a)] You must cause the modified files to carry prominent
164 notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any
165 change.
166
167 \item [(b)] You must cause any work that you distribute or publish,
168 that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program
169 or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to
170 all third parties under the terms of this License.
171
172 \item [(c)] If the modified program normally reads commands
173 interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running
174 for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or
175 display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice
176 and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you
177 provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program
178 under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy
179 of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is
180 interactive but does not normally print such an announcement,
181 your work based on the Program is not required to print an
182 announcement.)
183
184 \end{enumerate}
185
186 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
187 identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
188 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
189 themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
190 sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
191 distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
192 on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
193 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
194 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote
195 it.
196
197 Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
198 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
199 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
200 collective works based on the Program.
201
202 In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
203 with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a
204 storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the
205 scope of this License.
206
207\item [3.] You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
208 under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
209 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
210
211 \begin{enumerate}
212
213 \item [(a)] Accompany it with the complete corresponding
214 machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the
215 terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for
216 software interchange; or,
217
218 \item [(b)] Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
219 years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
220 cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
221 machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
222 distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
223 customarily used for software interchange; or,
224
225 \item [(c)] Accompany it with the information you received as to the
226 offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative
227 is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
228 received the program in object code or executable form with such
229 an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
230
231 \end{enumerate}
232
233 The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
234 making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
235 code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
236 associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control
237 compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special
238 exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that
239 is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the
240 major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system
241 on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies
242 the executable.
243
244 If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access
245 to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to
246 copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the
247 source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the
248 source along with the object code.
249
250\item [4.] You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
251 except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise
252 to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will
253 automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
254 parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
255 License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties
256 remain in full compliance.
257
258\item [5.] You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
259 signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
260 distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
261 prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
262 modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
263 Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
264 all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the
265 Program or works based on it.
266
267\item [6.] Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
268 Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
269 original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
270 these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
271 restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
272 You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
273 this License.
274
275\item [7.] If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
276 infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
277 conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
278 otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
279 excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
280 distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
281 License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
282 may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
283 license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
284 all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
285 the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
286 refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
287
288 If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
289 any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
290 apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
291 circumstances.
292
293 It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
294 patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
295 such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
296 integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
297 implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
298 generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
299 through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
300 system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
301 to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
302 impose that choice.
303
304 This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
305 be a consequence of the rest of this License.
306
307\item [8.] If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
308 certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
309 original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may
310 add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those
311 countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries
312 not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the
313 limitation as if written in the body of this License.
314
315\item [9.] The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new
316 versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new
317 versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
318 differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
319
320 Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
321 specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and
322 ``any later version'', you have the option of following the terms and
323 conditions either of that version or of any later version published by
324 the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a
325 version number of this License, you may choose any version ever
326 published by the Free Software Foundation.
327
328\item [10.] If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
329 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the
330 author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the
331 Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we
332 sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the
333 two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free
334 software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
335
336\begin{center}
337NO WARRANTY
338\end{center}
339
340\bfseries
341
342\item [11.] Because the Program is licensed free of charge, there is no
343 warranty for the Program, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
344 except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or
345 other parties provide the program ``as is'' without warranty of any
346 kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the
347 implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
348 purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the
349 Program is with you. Should the Program prove defective, you assume
350 the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.
351
352\item [12.] In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in
353 writing will any copyright holder, or any other party who may modify
354 and/or redistribute the program as permitted above, be liable to you
355 for damages, including any general, special, incidental or
356 consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the
357 program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being
358 rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a
359 failure of the Program to operate with any other programs), even if
360 such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such
361 damages.
362
363\end{enumerate}
364
365\begin{center}
366\textbf{END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS}
367\end{center}
368
369
370\gplsec{Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs}
371
372If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible
373use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software
374which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
375
376To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to
377attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the
378exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the ``copyright''
379line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
380
381\begin{verbatim}
382<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
383Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
384
385This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
386it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
387the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
388(at your option) any later version.
389
390This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
391but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
392MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
393GNU General Public License for more details.
394
395You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
396along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
397Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
398\end{verbatim}
399
400Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
401
402If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when
403it starts in an interactive mode:
404
405\begin{verbatim}
406Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
407Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type
408`show w'.
409This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
410under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
411\end{verbatim}
412
413The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
414parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be
415called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
416mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
417
418You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
419school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the program, if
420necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
421
422\begin{verbatim}
423Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
424`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
425
426<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
427Ty Coon, President of Vice
428\end{verbatim}
429
430This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
431proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
432consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
433library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public
434License instead of this License.
435
436\gplend