GNU General Public License
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 


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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 



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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 freedom 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 Foundation software is 
covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too. 
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make 
sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you 
receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; 
and that you know you can do these things. 

To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender 
the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or 
if you modify it. 

For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all 
the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them 
these terms so they know their rights. 

We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal 
permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software. 

Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty 
for this free software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what 
they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors' 
reputations. 

Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors 
of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, 
we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. 

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow. 

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distributing and Modification
0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may 
be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, 
and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a 
work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another 
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed 
as "you". 
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. 
The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its 
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 Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided 
that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; 
keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients 
of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. 

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection 
in exchange for a fee. 

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, 
and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all 
of these conditions: 

a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any 
change. 
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the 
Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License. 

c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for 
such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright 
notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute 
the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program 
itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required 
to print an announcement.) 

These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the 
Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, 
do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as 
part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, 
whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who 
wrote it. 
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; 
rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on 
the Program. 

In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the 
Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License. 

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form 
under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: 

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms 
of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than 
your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, 
to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. 
(This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or 
executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) 

The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, 
complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, 
plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the 
source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with 
the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that 
component itself accompanies the executable. 
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering 
equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though 
third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code. 

4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. 
Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate 
your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will 
not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. 

5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission 
to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this 
License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your 
acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program 
or works based on it. 

6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a 
license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. 
You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not 
responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License. 

7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason 
(not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) 
that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. 
If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other 
pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent 
license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or 
indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely 
from distribution of the Program. 

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the 
section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances. 

It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest 
validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software 
distribution system, which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions 
to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; 
it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and 
a licensee cannot impose that choice. 

This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License. 

8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by 
copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit 
geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among 
countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this 
License. 

9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License from time to time. 
Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or 
concerns. 

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License 
which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of 
that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a 
version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. 

10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are 
different, write to the author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, 
write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two 
goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of 
software generally. 

NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY 
APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM 
"AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM 
IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. 

12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY 
WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, 
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT 
LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE 
PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 
SUCH DAMAGES. 

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve 
this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.

To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to 
most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer 
to where the full notice is found.

    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public 
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later 
    version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 
    warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free 
    Software Foundation, Inc.,
    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:

    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, 
the commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu 
items--whatever suits your program.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" 
for the program, if necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:

  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
  Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs.  If your program is a 
subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is 
what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.