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  2. NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
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  4. of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
  5. Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
  6. Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
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  12.  
  13. Linus Torvalds
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  15. ----------------------------------------
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  17. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  18. Version 2, June 1991
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  20. Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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  292. END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
  293. How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
  294.  
  295. If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
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  299. To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
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  321.  
  322. Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
  323.  
  324. If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
  325. when it starts in an interactive mode:
  326.  
  327. Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
  328. Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
  329. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  330. under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
  331.  
  332. The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
  333. parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
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  335. mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
  336.  
  337. You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
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  339. necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
  340.  
  341. Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  342. `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
  343.  
  344. <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
  345. Ty Coon, President of Vice
  346.  
  347. This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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  349. consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
  350. library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
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