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  1. GNU CC GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  2. Copyright (C) 1987 Richard M. Stallman
  3. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  4. of this license, but changing it is not allowed.
  5. The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the
  6. mercy of those companies. By contrast, our general public license is
  7. intended to give everyone the right to share GNU CC. To make sure that
  8. you get the rights we want you to have, we need to make restrictions
  9. that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender
  10. the rights. Hence this license agreement.
  11. Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
  12. away copies of GNU CC, that you receive source code or else can get it
  13. if you want it, that you can change GNU CC or use pieces of it in new
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  15. To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to
  16. deprive anyone else of these rights. For example, if you distribute
  17. copies of GNU CC, you must give the recipients all the rights that you
  18. have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
  19. source code. And you must tell them their rights.
  20. Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
  21. finds out that there is no warranty for GNU CC. If GNU CC is modified by
  22. someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what
  23. they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems introduced
  24. by others will not reflect on our reputation.
  25. Therefore we (Richard Stallman and the Free Software Fundation,
  26. Inc.) make the following terms which say what you must do to be
  27. allowed to distribute or change GNU CC.
  28. COPYING POLICIES
  29. 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of GNU CC source code as
  30. you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
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  32. (C) 1987 Free Software Foundation, Inc." (or with the year updated if
  33. that is appropriate); keep intact the notices on all files that refer
  34. to this License Agreement and to the absence of any warranty; and give
  35. any other recipients of the GNU CC program a copy of this License
  36. Agreement along with the program. You may charge a distribution fee
  37. for the physical act of transferring a copy.
  38. 2. You may modify your copy or copies of GNU CC or any portion of it,
  39. and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of
  40. Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:
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  43. b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
  44. that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of GNU CC or
  45. any part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to all third
  46. parties on terms identical to those contained in this License
  47. Agreement (except that you may choose to grant more extensive
  48. warranty protection to some or all third parties, at your
  49. option).
  50. c) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
  51. transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty
  52. protection in exchange for a fee.
  53. 3. You may copy and distribute GNU CC or any portion of it in
  54. compiled, executable or object code form under the terms of Paragraphs
  55. 1 and 2 above provided that you do the following:
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  68. with the copy you received.
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  70. except as expressly provided under this License Agreement. Any attempt
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  79. out a simple rule that can be stated here, but we will often permit this.
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  86. NO WARRANTY
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  90. RICHARD M. STALLMAN AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE GNU CC "AS IS" WITHOUT
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  97. STALLMAN, THE FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC., AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY
  98. WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE GNU CC AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO
  99. YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER
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