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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

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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.

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