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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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your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the
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License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation’s
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING,
DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free
Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin S
0. This License applies to any program or other work which
contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying
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work, and a “work based on the Program” means either
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into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included
without limitation in the term “modification”.) Each licensee is
addressed as “you”.
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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
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