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                     18: GNU General Public License
                     19: <br />
                     20: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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                     23: (shown below)
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1.2       harris41   32: Freeware and the free Linux operating system mean <strong>better
                     33: features</strong>, <strong>better support</strong>, and a 
                     34: <strong>more reliable future</strong> for your institution's educational
                     35: mission.
                     36: <br />
                     37: Learn more about freeware and many other freeware success stories
1.3       harris41   38: [<a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Personal_Pages/">A</a>]
                     39: [<a href=
                     40: "http://www.users.qwest.net/~bcaplin/talks/case/html/index.html">B</a>]
                     41: [<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html">C</a>]
1.4     ! harris41   42: [<a href="http://www.linux.org/info/advocacy.html">D</a>]
        !            43: [<a href="http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_business.html">E</a>]
1.3       harris41   44: [<a href="http://freshmeat.net/">F</a>]
                     45: [<a href="http://sourceforge.net/">G</a>]
                     46: [<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/">H</a>]
                     47: [<a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/success/">I</a>]
                     48: [<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/hereshow/article/0,aid,11379,00.asp">J</a>]
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                     56: <pre>
                     57: 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                     58: 		       Version 2, June 1991
                     59: 
                     60:  Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
                     61:                        59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
                     62:  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
                     63:  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
                     64: 
                     65: 			    Preamble
                     66: 
                     67:   The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
                     68: freedom to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public
                     69: License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
                     70: software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.  This
                     71: General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
                     72: Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
                     73: using it.  (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
                     74: the GNU Library General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
                     75: your programs, too.
                     76: 
                     77:   When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
                     78: price.  Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
                     79: have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
                     80: this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
                     81: if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
                     82: in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
                     83: 
                     84:   To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
                     85: anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
                     86: These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
                     87: distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
                     88: 
                     89:   For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
                     90: gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
                     91: you have.  You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
                     92: source code.  And you must show them these terms so they know their
                     93: rights.
                     94: 
                     95:   We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
                     96: (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
                     97: distribute and/or modify the software.
                     98: 
                     99:   Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
                    100: that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
                    101: software.  If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
                    102: want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
                    103: that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
                    104: authors' reputations.
                    105: 
                    106:   Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
                    107: patents.  We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
                    108: program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
                    109: program proprietary.  To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
                    110: patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
                    111: 
                    112:   The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
                    113: modification follow.
1.3       harris41  114: 
1.1       harris41  115: 		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                    116:    TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
                    117: 
                    118:   0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
                    119: a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
                    120: under the terms of this General Public License.  The "Program", below,
                    121: refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
                    122: means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
                    123: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
                    124: either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
                    125: language.  (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
                    126: the term "modification".)  Each licensee is addressed as "you".
                    127: 
                    128: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
                    129: covered by this License; they are outside its scope.  The act of
                    130: running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program
                    131: is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the
                    132: Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
                    133: Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
                    134: 
                    135:   1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
                    136: source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
                    137: conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
                    138: copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
                    139: notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
                    140: and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
                    141: along with the Program.
                    142: 
                    143: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
                    144: you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
                    145: 
                    146:   2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
                    147: of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
                    148: distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
                    149: above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
                    150: 
                    151:     a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
                    152:     stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
                    153: 
                    154:     b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
                    155:     whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
                    156:     part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
                    157:     parties under the terms of this License.
                    158: 
                    159:     c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
                    160:     when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
                    161:     interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
                    162:     announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
                    163:     notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
                    164:     a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
                    165:     these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
                    166:     License.  (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
                    167:     does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
                    168:     the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
1.3       harris41  169: 
1.1       harris41  170: These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
                    171: identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
                    172: and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
                    173: themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
                    174: sections when you distribute them as separate works.  But when you
                    175: distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
                    176: on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
                    177: this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
                    178: entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
                    179: 
                    180: Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
                    181: your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
                    182: exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
                    183: collective works based on the Program.
                    184: 
                    185: In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
                    186: with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
                    187: a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
                    188: the scope of this License.
                    189: 
                    190:   3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
                    191: under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
                    192: Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
                    193: 
                    194:     a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
                    195:     source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
                    196:     1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
                    197: 
                    198:     b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
                    199:     years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
                    200:     cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
                    201:     machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
                    202:     distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
                    203:     customarily used for software interchange; or,
                    204: 
                    205:     c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
                    206:     to distribute corresponding source code.  (This alternative is
                    207:     allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
                    208:     received the program in object code or executable form with such
                    209:     an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
                    210: 
                    211: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
                    212: making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source
                    213: code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
                    214: associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
                    215: control compilation and installation of the executable.  However, as a
                    216: special exception, the source code distributed need not include
                    217: anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
                    218: form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
                    219: operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
                    220: itself accompanies the executable.
                    221: 
                    222: If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
                    223: access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent
                    224: access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
                    225: distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
                    226: compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
1.3       harris41  227: 
1.1       harris41  228:   4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
                    229: except as expressly provided under this License.  Any attempt
                    230: otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
                    231: void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
                    232: However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
                    233: this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
                    234: parties remain in full compliance.
                    235: 
                    236:   5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
                    237: signed it.  However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
                    238: distribute the Program or its derivative works.  These actions are
                    239: prohibited by law if you do not accept this License.  Therefore, by
                    240: modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
                    241: Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
                    242: all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
                    243: the Program or works based on it.
                    244: 
                    245:   6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
                    246: Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
                    247: original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
                    248: these terms and conditions.  You may not impose any further
                    249: restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
                    250: You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to
                    251: this License.
                    252: 
                    253:   7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
                    254: infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
                    255: conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
                    256: otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
                    257: excuse you from the conditions of this License.  If you cannot
                    258: distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
                    259: License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
                    260: may not distribute the Program at all.  For example, if a patent
                    261: license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
                    262: all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
                    263: the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
                    264: refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
                    265: 
                    266: If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
                    267: any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
                    268: apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
                    269: circumstances.
                    270: 
                    271: It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
                    272: patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any
                    273: such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the
                    274: integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
                    275: implemented by public license practices.  Many people have made
                    276: generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
                    277: through that system in reliance on consistent application of that
                    278: system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing
                    279: to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
                    280: impose that choice.
                    281: 
                    282: This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
                    283: be a consequence of the rest of this License.
1.3       harris41  284: 
1.1       harris41  285:   8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
                    286: certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
                    287: original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
                    288: may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
                    289: those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
                    290: countries not thus excluded.  In such case, this License incorporates
                    291: the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
                    292: 
                    293:   9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
                    294: of the General Public License from time to time.  Such new versions will
                    295: be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
                    296: address new problems or concerns.
                    297: 
                    298: Each version is given a distinguishing version number.  If the Program
                    299: specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
                    300: later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
                    301: either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
                    302: Software Foundation.  If the Program does not specify a version number of
                    303: this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
                    304: Foundation.
                    305: 
                    306:   10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
                    307: programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
                    308: to ask for permission.  For software which is copyrighted by the Free
                    309: Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
                    310: make exceptions for this.  Our decision will be guided by the two goals
                    311: of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
                    312: of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
                    313: 
                    314: 			    NO WARRANTY
                    315: 
                    316:   11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
                    317: FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN
                    318: OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
                    319: PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
                    320: OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
                    321: MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE ENTIRE RISK AS
                    322: TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.  SHOULD THE
                    323: PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
                    324: REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
                    325: 
                    326:   12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
                    327: WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
                    328: REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
                    329: INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
                    330: OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
                    331: TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
                    332: YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
                    333: PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
                    334: POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
                    335: 
                    336: 		     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1.3       harris41  337: 
1.1       harris41  338: 	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
                    339: 
                    340:   If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
                    341: possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
                    342: free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
                    343: 
                    344:   To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
                    345: to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
                    346: convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
                    347: the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
                    348: 
1.3       harris41  349:     &lt;one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.&gt;
                    350:     Copyright (C) &lt;year&gt;  &lt;name of author&gt;
1.1       harris41  351: 
                    352:     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
                    353:     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
                    354:     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
                    355:     (at your option) any later version.
                    356: 
                    357:     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
                    358:     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
                    359:     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
                    360:     GNU General Public License for more details.
                    361: 
                    362:     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
                    363:     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
                    364:     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
                    365: 
                    366: 
                    367: Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
                    368: 
                    369: If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
                    370: when it starts in an interactive mode:
                    371: 
                    372:     Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
                    373:     Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
                    374:     This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
                    375:     under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
                    376: 
                    377: The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
                    378: parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
                    379: be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
                    380: mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
                    381: 
                    382: You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
                    383: school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
                    384: necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
                    385: 
                    386:   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
                    387:   `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
                    388: 
1.3       harris41  389:   &lt;signature of Ty Coon&gt;, 1 April 1989
1.1       harris41  390:   Ty Coon, President of Vice
                    391: 
                    392: This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
                    393: proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
                    394: consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
                    395: library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
                    396: Public License instead of this License.
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