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License The Hindawi Programming System is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The Hindawi Programming System 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 below for more details. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New
Programs 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. 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 a brief idea of what it does.> Copyright (C) 19yy <name of author> 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. 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. 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., Also add information on how
to contact you by electronic and paper mail. 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) 19yy name of author Gnomovision
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; type `show c' for details. 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. 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: 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 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 Library General Public License instead of
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