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  1 jelson 1.1 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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280            		     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
281            
282            	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
283            
284              If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
285            possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
286            free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
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294                Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
295 jelson 1.1 
296                This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
297                it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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299                (at your option) any later version.
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309            
310            
311            Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
312            
313            If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
314            when it starts in an interactive mode:
315            
316 jelson 1.1     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year  name of author
317                Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
318                This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
319                under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
320            
321            The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
322            parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
323            be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
324            mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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328            necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
329            
330              Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
331              `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
332            
333              <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
334              Ty Coon, President of Vice
335            
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