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  1. GNU X-CHESS GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  2. Copyright (C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  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 X-Chess. To make
  8. sure that you get the rights we want you to have, we need to make
  9. restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you
  10. to surrender 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 X-Chess, that you receive source code or else can get it
  13. if you want it, that you can change GNU X-Chess 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 X-Chess, you must give the recipients all the rights that you
  18. have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
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  20. Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
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  25. Therefore the Free Software Foundation, Inc. makes the following
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  27. GNU X-Chess.
  28. COPYING POLICIES
  29. 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of GNU X-Chess source
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  37. 2. You may modify your copy or copies of GNU X-Chess source code or
  38. any portion of it, and copy and distribute such modifications under
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  42. b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
  43. that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of GNU X-Chess
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  45. and licensed to all third parties on terms identical to those
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  47. to grant more extensive warranty protection to third parties,
  48. at your option).
  49. c) if the modified program serves as a text editor, cause it
  50. when started running in the simplest and usual way, to print
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