COPYING (17983B)
1 2 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 3 Version 2, June 1991 4 5 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 6 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 7 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies 8 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 9 10 Preamble 11 12 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your 13 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public 14 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free 15 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This 16 General Public License applies to most of the Free Software 17 Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to 18 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by 19 the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to 20 your programs, too. 21 22 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not 23 price. 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