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GNU General Public Licence
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
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Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and
change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your free-
dom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.
This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation‘s software
and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software
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When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General
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