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Revision: 1.7
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Correct a mention of the CMS, which should really have referred to all of
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4 i-scream licensing
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14 i-scream software licensing
15 </h1>
16 <p>
17 Unless explicitly mentioned all i-scream software is
18 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The
19 full license can be found
20 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt">here</a>,
21 but is also given below for reference.
22 </p>
23 <pre>
24 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
25 Version 2, June 1991
26
27 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
28 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
29 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
30 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
31
32 Preamble
33
34 The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
35 freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
36 License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
37 software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
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40 using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
41 the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
42 your programs, too.
43
44 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
45 price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
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48 if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
49 in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
50
51 To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
52 anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
53 These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
54 distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
55
56 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
57 gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
58 you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
59 source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
60 rights.
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62 We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
63 (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
64 distribute and/or modify the software.
65
66 Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
67 that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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72
73 Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
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78
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80 modification follow.
81
82 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
83 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
84
85 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
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94
95 Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
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99 Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
100 Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
101
102 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
103 source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
104 conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
105 copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
106 notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
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126 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
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128 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
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131 a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
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134 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
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136
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139 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
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156
157 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
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160
161 a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
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194
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280
281 NO WARRANTY
282
283 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
284 FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
285 OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
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291 REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
292
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294 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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301 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
302
303 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
304
305 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
306
307 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
308 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
309 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
310
311 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
312 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
313 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
314 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
315
316 &lt;one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.&gt;
317 Copyright (C) &lt;year&gt; &lt;name of author&gt;
318
319 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
320 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
321 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
322 (at your option) any later version.
323
324 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
325 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
326 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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328
329 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
330 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
331 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
332
333
334 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
335
336 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
337 when it starts in an interactive mode:
338
339 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
340 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
341 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
342 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
343
344 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
345 parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
346 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
347 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
348
349 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
350 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
351 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
352
353 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
354 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
355
356 &lt;signature of Ty Coon&gt;, 1 April 1989
357 Ty Coon, President of Vice
358
359 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
360 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
361 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
362 library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
363 Public License instead of this License.
364 </pre>
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