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1 pcg 1.5 This program is released under the GPL with the additional exemption that
2     compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may provide
3     binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that all other
4     requirements of the GPL are met.
5    
6     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7    
8 pcg 1.1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
9     Version 2, June 1991
10    
11     Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
12 pcg 1.6 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
13 pcg 1.1 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
14     of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
15    
16     Preamble
17    
18     The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
19     freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
20     License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
21     software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
22     General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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24     using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
25     the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
26     your programs, too.
27    
28     When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
29     price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
30     have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
31     this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
32     if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
33     in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
34    
35     To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
36     anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
37     These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
38     distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
39    
40     For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
41     gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
42     you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
43     source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
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46     We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
47     (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
48     distribute and/or modify the software.
49    
50     Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
51     that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
52     software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
53     want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
54     that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
55     authors' reputations.
56    
57     Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
58     patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
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60     program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
61     patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
62    
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64     modification follow.
65    
66     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
67     TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
68    
69     0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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84     Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
85    
86     1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
87     source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
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104    
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111     when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
112     interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
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115     a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
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120    
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144    
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161    
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178    
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232    
233     This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
234     be a consequence of the rest of this License.
235    
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237     certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
238     original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
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240     those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
241     countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates
242     the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
243    
244     9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
245     of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
246     be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
247     address new problems or concerns.
248    
249     Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
250     specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
251     later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
252     either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
253     Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
254     this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
255     Foundation.
256    
257     10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
258     programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
259     to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
260     Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
261     make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
262     of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
263     of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
264    
265     NO WARRANTY
266    
267     11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
268     FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
269     OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
270     PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
271     OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
272     MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
273     TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
274     PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
275     REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
276    
277     12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
278     WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
279     REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
280     INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
281     OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
282     TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
283     YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
284     PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
285     POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
286    
287     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
288    
289 pcg 1.2 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
290 pcg 1.1
291     If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
292     possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
293     free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
294    
295     To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
296     to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
297     convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
298     the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
299    
300     <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
301 pcg 1.2 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
302 pcg 1.1
303 pcg 1.4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
304 pcg 1.1 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
305     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
306     (at your option) any later version.
307    
308     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
309     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
310     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
311     GNU General Public License for more details.
312    
313     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
314 pcg 1.4 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
315 pcg 1.6 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
316 pcg 1.2
317 pcg 1.1
318     Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
319    
320     If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
321     when it starts in an interactive mode:
322    
323 pcg 1.2 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
324 pcg 1.1 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
325     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
326     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
327    
328     The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
329     parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
330     be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
331     mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
332    
333     You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
334     school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
335     necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
336    
337     Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
338     `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
339    
340     <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
341     Ty Coon, President of Vice
342    
343     This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
344     proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
345     consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
346     library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
347     Public License instead of this License.