licenses.d/gpl.txt
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Sun Jan 17 23:06:02 2010 +0100 (2010-01-17)
changeset 1740 c57458bb354d
parent 1 eeea35fbf182
permissions -rw-r--r--
configure: do not require hg when configuring in an hg clone

When configuring in an hg clone, we need hg to compute the version string.
It can happen that users do not have Mercurial (eg. if they got a snapshot
rather that they did a full clone). In this case, we can still run, of
course, so simply fill the version string with a sufficiently explicit
value, that does not require hg. The date is a good candidate.
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		    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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		       Version 2, June 1991
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 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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			    Preamble
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  The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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freedom to share and change it.  By contrast, the GNU General Public
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License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
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software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.  This
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General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
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Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
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using it.  (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
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the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.)  You can apply it to
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your programs, too.
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  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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price.  Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
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have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
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in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
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rights.
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  11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
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	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
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possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
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free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
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  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
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to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
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the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
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    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
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    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
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    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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    GNU General Public License for more details.
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    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
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If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
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when it starts in an interactive mode:
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    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
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    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
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    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
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The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
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be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
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mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
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school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
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necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
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  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
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  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
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  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
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  Ty Coon, President of Vice
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This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
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proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
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library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
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Public License instead of this License.