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+The GNU General Public License, Version 2, June 1991 (GPLv2)
+============================================================
+
+> Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+> 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
+
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license
+document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+
+Preamble
+--------
+
+The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share
+and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to
+guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the
+software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most
+of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose
+authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is
+covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
+your programs, too.
+
+When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our
+General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to
+distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish),
+that you receive 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 that you know you can
+do these things.
+
+To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny
+you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions
+translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the
+software, or if you modify it.
+
+For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a
+fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make
+sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them
+these terms so they know their rights.
+
+We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer
+you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or
+modify the software.
+
+Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that
+everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the
+software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to
+know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by
+others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations.
+
+Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish
+to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually
+obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent
+this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free
+use or not licensed at all.
+
+The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification
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+
+
+Terms And Conditions For Copying, Distribution And Modification
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+**0.** This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice
+placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of
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+
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+
+
+No Warranty
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+
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