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HOW TO APPLY THESE TERMS TO YOUR NEW PROGRAMS
(1) If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the
public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can
redistribute and change under these terms.
(2) To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the
start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file
should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
<one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <yyyy> <name of author>
(3) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
(4) This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
(5) You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this
program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation Inc; 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
(6) Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
(7) If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an
interactive mode: Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author Gnomovision
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. (8) This is free
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' for
details.
(9) The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of
the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be called something
other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever
suits your program.
(10) You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any,
to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the
names: (11) Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. <signature of
Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 [Ty Coon, President of Vice]
(12) This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more
useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do,
use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License.
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