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72%^^A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
73\gpltoplevel{The GNU General Public License}
74
75
76The following is the text of the GNU General Public License, under the terms
77of which this software is distrubuted.
78
79\vspace{12pt}
80
81\begin{center}
82\textbf{GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE} \\
83Version 2, June 1991
84\end{center}
85
86\begin{center}
87Copyright \copyright\ 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. \\
8859 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
89
90Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies \\
91of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
92\end{center}
93
94
95\gplsec{Preamble}
96
97The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to
98share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended
99to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software---to make sure
100the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies
101to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program
102whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation
103software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You
104can apply it to your programs, too.
105
106When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our
107General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom
108to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you
109wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you
110can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that
111you know you can do these things.
112
113To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to
114deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These
115restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute
116copies of the software, or if you modify it.
117
118For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or
119for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You
120must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you
121must show them these terms so they know their rights.
122
123We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2)
124offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute
125and/or modify the software.
126
127Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that
128everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If
129the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its
130recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any
131problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors'
132reputations.
133
134Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We
135wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will
136individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program
137proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be
138licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
139
140The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification
141follow.
142
143
144\gplsec{Terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification}
145
146\begin{enumerate}
147
148\makeatletter \setcounter{\@listctr}{-1} \makeatother
149
150\item [0.] This License applies to any program or other work which contains a
151 notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
152 under the terms of this General Public License. The ``Program'',
153 below, refers to any such program or work, and a ``work based on the
154 Program'' means either the Program or any derivative work under
155 copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a
156 portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated
157 into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without
158 limitation in the term ``modification''.) Each licensee is addressed
159 as ``you''.
160
161 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
162 covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
163 running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
164 is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program
165 (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that
166 is true depends on what the Program does.
167
168\item [1.] You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
169 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
170 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
171 copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
172 notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
173 and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
174 along with the Program.
175
176 You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
177 you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
178
179\item [2.] You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
180 of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
181 distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
182 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
183
184 \begin{enumerate}
185
186 \item [(a)] You must cause the modified files to carry prominent
187 notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any
188 change.
189
190 \item [(b)] You must cause any work that you distribute or publish,
191 that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program
192 or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to
193 all third parties under the terms of this License.
194
195 \item [(c)] If the modified program normally reads commands
196 interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running
197 for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or
198 display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice
199 and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you
200 provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program
201 under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy
202 of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is
203 interactive but does not normally print such an announcement,
204 your work based on the Program is not required to print an
205 announcement.)
206
207 \end{enumerate}
208
209 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
210 identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
211 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
212 themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
213 sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
214 distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
215 on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
216 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
217 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote
218 it.
219
220 Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
221 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
222 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
223 collective works based on the Program.
224
225 In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
226 with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a
227 storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the
228 scope of this License.
229
230\item [3.] You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
231 under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
232 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
233
234 \begin{enumerate}
235
236 \item [(a)] Accompany it with the complete corresponding
237 machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the
238 terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for
239 software interchange; or,
240
241 \item [(b)] Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
242 years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
243 cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
244 machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
245 distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
246 customarily used for software interchange; or,
247
248 \item [(c)] Accompany it with the information you received as to the
249 offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative
250 is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
251 received the program in object code or executable form with such
252 an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
253
254 \end{enumerate}
255
256 The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
257 making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
258 code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
259 associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control
260 compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special
261 exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that
262 is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the
263 major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system
264 on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies
265 the executable.
266
267 If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access
268 to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to
269 copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the
270 source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the
271 source along with the object code.
272
273\item [4.] You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
274 except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise
275 to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will
276 automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
277 parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
278 License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties
279 remain in full compliance.
280
281\item [5.] You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
282 signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
283 distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
284 prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
285 modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
286 Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
287 all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the
288 Program or works based on it.
289
290\item [6.] Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
291 Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
292 original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
293 these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
294 restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
295 You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
296 this License.
297
298\item [7.] If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
299 infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
300 conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
301 otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
302 excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
303 distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
304 License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
305 may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
306 license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
307 all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
308 the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
309 refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
310
311 If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
312 any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
313 apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
314 circumstances.
315
316 It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
317 patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
318 such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
319 integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
320 implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
321 generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
322 through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
323 system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
324 to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
325 impose that choice.
326
327 This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
328 be a consequence of the rest of this License.
329
330\item [8.] If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
331 certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
332 original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may
333 add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those
334 countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries
335 not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the
336 limitation as if written in the body of this License.
337
338\item [9.] The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new
339 versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new
340 versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
341 differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
342
343 Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
344 specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and
345 ``any later version'', you have the option of following the terms and
346 conditions either of that version or of any later version published by
347 the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a
348 version number of this License, you may choose any version ever
349 published by the Free Software Foundation.
350
351\item [10.] If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
352 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the
353 author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the
354 Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we
355 sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the
356 two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free
357 software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
358
359\begin{center}
360NO WARRANTY
361\end{center}
362
363\bfseries
364
365\item [11.] Because the Program is licensed free of charge, there is no
366 warranty for the Program, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
367 except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or
368 other parties provide the program ``as is'' without warranty of any
369 kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the
370 implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
371 purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the
372 Program is with you. Should the Program prove defective, you assume
373 the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.
374
375\item [12.] In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in
376 writing will any copyright holder, or any other party who may modify
377 and/or redistribute the program as permitted above, be liable to you
378 for damages, including any general, special, incidental or
379 consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the
380 program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being
381 rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a
382 failure of the Program to operate with any other programs), even if
383 such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such
384 damages.
385
386\end{enumerate}
387
388\begin{center}
389\textbf{END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS}
390\end{center}
391
392
393\gplsec{Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs}
394
395If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible
396use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software
397which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
398
399To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to
400attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the
401exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the ``copyright''
402line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
403
404\begin{verbatim}
405<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
406Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author>
407
408This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
409it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
410the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
411(at your option) any later version.
412
413This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
414but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
415MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
416GNU General Public License for more details.
417
418You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
419along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
420Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
421\end{verbatim}
422
423Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
424
425If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when
426it starts in an interactive mode:
427
428\begin{verbatim}
429Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
430Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type
431`show w'.
432This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
433under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
434\end{verbatim}
435
436The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
437parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be
438called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
439mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
440
441You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
442school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the program, if
443necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
444
445\begin{verbatim}
446Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
447`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
448
449<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
450Ty Coon, President of Vice
451\end{verbatim}
452
453This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
454proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
455consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
456library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public
457License instead of this License.
458
459\gplend