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It is safest 637to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively 638state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least 639the “copyright” line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.</p> 640 641<pre> <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> 642 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> 643 644 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 645 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 646 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 647 (at your option) any later version. 648 649 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 650 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 651 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 652 GNU General Public License for more details. 653 654 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 655 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 656</pre> 657 658<p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.</p> 659 660<p>If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short 661notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:</p> 662 663<pre> <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> 664 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. 665 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it 666 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. 667</pre> 668 669<p>The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate 670parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands 671might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an “about box”.</p> 672 673<p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school, 674if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if necessary. 675For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see 676<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.</p> 677 678<p>The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program 679into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you 680may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with 681the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General 682Public License instead of this License. But first, please read 683<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.</p> 684 685 686 687</body></html>