Appendix F. GNU General Public License

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Version 2, June 1991

Copyright © 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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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[1] 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 ...

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