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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 state the exclusion of war-
ranty; and each file should have at least the “copy-
right” 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 3 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 Gen-
eral Public License along with this program. If not,
see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Also add information on how to contact you by elec-
tronic and paper mail.
If the program does terminal interaction, make it out-
put a short notice like this when it starts in an inter-
active mode:
<program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WAR-
RANTY; for details type `show w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redis-
tribute 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, your program's com-
mands might be different; for a GUI interface, you
would use an “about box”.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a
programmer) or school, if any, to sign a “copyright
disclaimer” for the program, if necessary. For more
information on this, and how to apply and follow the
GNU GPL, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
The GNU General Public License does not permit
incorporating your program into proprietary pro-
grams. If your program is a subroutine library, you
may consider it more useful to permit linking proprie-
tary applications with the library. If this is what you
want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public
License instead of this License. But first, please
read <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-
lgpl.html>.