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| 527 | |
| 528 | \gplsec{Appendix: How to apply these terms to your new libraries} |
| 529 | |
| 530 | If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest possible |
| 531 | use to the public, we recommend making it free software that everyone can |
| 532 | redistribute and change. You can do so by permitting redistribution under |
| 533 | these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of the ordinary General |
| 534 | Public License). |
| 535 | |
| 536 | To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library. It is |
| 537 | safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively |
| 538 | convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the |
| 539 | ``copyright'' line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. |
| 540 | |
| 541 | \begin{verbatim} |
| 542 | <one line to give the library's name and a brief idea of what it does.> |
| 543 | Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> |
| 544 | |
| 545 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
| 546 | modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public |
| 547 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either |
| 548 | version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
| 549 | |
| 550 | This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| 551 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| 552 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
| 553 | Library General Public License for more details. |
| 554 | |
| 555 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License |
| 556 | along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, |
| 557 | Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
| 558 | \end{verbatim} |
| 559 | |
| 560 | Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. |
| 561 | |
| 562 | You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your |
| 563 | school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the library, if |
| 564 | necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: |
| 565 | |
| 566 | \begin{verbatim} |
| 567 | Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the |
| 568 | library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James |
| 569 | Random Hacker. |
| 570 | |
| 571 | <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990 |
| 572 | Ty Coon, President of Vice |
| 573 | \end{verbatim} |
| 574 | |
| 575 | That's all there is to it! |
| 576 | |
| 577 | \gplend |