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-Preamble
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-The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.
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-The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the
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-works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all
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-versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use
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-the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its
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-authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.
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-When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make
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-sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive
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-source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and
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-that you know you can do these things.
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-To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights.
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-Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it:
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-responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.
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-For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients
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-the same freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must
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-show them these terms so they know their rights.
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-Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer
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-you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.
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-For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty for this free software.
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-For both users' and authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed, so that their problems
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-will not be attributed erroneously to authors of previous versions.
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-Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although
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-the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom to change the
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-software. The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely
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-where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those
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-products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those
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-domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.
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-Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents. States should not allow patents to restrict
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-development and use of software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special danger
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-that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that
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-patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.
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-The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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0. Definitions.
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0. Definitions.
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“This License” refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
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“This License” refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
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