Owner's Manual
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Foundation;
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License,
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starts
in an interactive mode:
Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name
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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;
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c'
for
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and
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they
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You should also
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employer
{if
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work
as a programmer)
or
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school,
if
any,
to
sign a "copyright disclaimer"
for
the
program,
if
necessary. Here is
a sample;
alter
the
names:
Yoyodyne,
Inc.,
hereby disclaims alt copyright
interest
in
the
program 'Gnomovision' {which makes passes
at
compilers)
written
by James Hacker.
signature
ofTy
Coon, 1 April
19B9
Ty
Coon, President
of
Vice
LGPL-2.1
GNU
LESSER
GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE
Version 2.1, February
1999
Copyright (C)
1991,
1999
Free
Software
Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin Street,
Fifth
Floor, Boston.
MA
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USA
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GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence
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2.1.]
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