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+<div class="APPENDIX">
+<h1><a id="GPL" name="GPL"></a>Appendix A. The GNU General Public License</h1>
+
+<div class="TOC">
+<dl>
+<dt><b>Table of Contents</b></dt>
+
+<dt>A.1. <a href="gpl.html#AEN7088">Preamble</a></dt>
+
+<dt>A.2. <a href="gpl.html#AEN7098">TERMS AND CONDITIONS</a></dt>
+
+<dt>A.3. <a href="gpl.html#AEN7162">How to Apply These Terms to Your New
+Programs</a></dt>
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+
+<p class="LITERALLAYOUT">GNU&nbsp;GENERAL&nbsp;PUBLIC&nbsp;LICENSE<br />
+<br />
+Version&nbsp;2,&nbsp;June&nbsp;1991<br />
+Copyright&nbsp;(C)&nbsp;1989,&nbsp;1991&nbsp;Free&nbsp;Software&nbsp;Foundation,&nbsp;Inc.<br />
+
+59&nbsp;Temple&nbsp;Place,&nbsp;Suite&nbsp;330,&nbsp;Boston,&nbsp;MA&nbsp;&nbsp;02111-1307&nbsp;&nbsp;USA<br />
+
+Everyone&nbsp;is&nbsp;permitted&nbsp;to&nbsp;copy&nbsp;and&nbsp;distribute&nbsp;verbatim&nbsp;copies&nbsp;of&nbsp;this<br />
+
+license&nbsp;document,&nbsp;but&nbsp;changing&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;not&nbsp;allowed.</p>
+
+<div class="SIMPLESECT">
+<h4 class="SIMPLESECT"><a id="AEN7088" name="AEN7088">A.1. Preamble</a></h4>
+
+<p>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 Library General Public License
+instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification
+follow.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="SIMPLESECT">
+<h4 class="SIMPLESECT"><a id="AEN7098" name="AEN7098">A.2. TERMS AND CONDITIONS</a></h4>
+
+<p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING,
+DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION</i></span></p>
+
+<ol type="1">
+<li>
+<p>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 this General Public
+License. The &#8220;Program&#8221;, below, refers to any such program or work, and a
+&#8220;work based on the Program&#8221; means either the Program or any derivative work
+under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
+either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language.
+(Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term
+&#8220;modification&#8221;.) Each licensee is addressed as &#8220;you&#8221;.</p>
+
+<p>Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this
+License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted,
+and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based
+on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is
+true depends on what the Program does.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you
+receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on
+each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
+notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other
+recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.</p>
+
+<p>You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your
+option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a
+work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the
+terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:</p>
+
+<ol type="a">
+<li>
+<p>You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed
+the files and the date of any change.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part
+contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at
+no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause
+it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or
+display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there
+is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may
+redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy
+of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally
+print such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an
+announcement.)</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of
+that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent
+and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
+sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same
+sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the
+whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend
+to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.</p>
+
+<p>Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to
+work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the
+distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.</p>
+
+<p>In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the
+Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution
+medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in
+object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that
+you also do one of the following:</p>
+
+<ol type="a">
+<li>
+<p>Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must
+be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for
+software interchange; or,</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third
+party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution,
+a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed
+under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software
+interchange; or,</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute
+corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial
+distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with
+such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
+modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source
+code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus
+the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
+special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally
+distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler,
+kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
+component itself accompanies the executable.</p>
+
+<p>If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a
+designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same
+place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
+compelled to copy the source along with the object code.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly
+provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or
+distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this
+License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
+License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full
+compliance.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However,
+nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative
+works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore,
+by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate
+your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying,
+distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the
+recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute
+or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any
+further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are
+not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for
+any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether
+by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License,
+they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so
+as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent
+obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For
+example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program
+by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you
+could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of
+the Program.</p>
+
+<p>If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular
+circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole
+is intended to apply in other circumstances.</p>
+
+<p>It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other
+property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the
+sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, which
+is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions
+to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent
+application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is
+willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that
+choice.</p>
+
+<p>This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence
+of the rest of this License.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries
+either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places
+the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation
+excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries
+not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written
+in the body of this License.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General
+Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the
+present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.</p>
+
+<p>Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a
+version number of this License which applies to it and &#8220;any later version&#8221;,
+you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not
+specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by
+the Free Software Foundation.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose
+distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For
+software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software
+Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two
+goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of
+promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>NO WARRANTY</p>
+
+<p>BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM,
+TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE
+COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM &#8220;AS IS&#8221; WITHOUT
+WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE
+RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM
+PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR
+CORRECTION.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS
+PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
+OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM
+(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES
+SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
+PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
+DAMAGES.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="SIMPLESECT">
+<h4 class="SIMPLESECT"><a id="AEN7162" name="AEN7162">A.3. How to Apply These Terms to
+Your New Programs</a></h4>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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 &#8220;copyright&#8221; line and a pointer to where
+the full notice is found.</p>
+
+<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+&lt;one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.&gt;
+ Copyright (C) &lt;year&gt; &lt;name of author&gt;
+
+ 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+</pre>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.</p>
+
+<p>If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts
+in an interactive mode:</p>
+
+<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<pre class="SCREEN">
+Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year 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.
+</pre>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if
+any, to sign a &#8220;copyright disclaimer&#8221; for the program, if necessary. Here is
+a sample; alter the names:</p>
+
+<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
+ Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
+ `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
+
+ &lt;signature of Ty Coon&gt;, 1 April 1989
+ Ty Coon, President of Vice
+</pre>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>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 this License.</p>
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