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By running: ```console $ curl -o LICENSE.md https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.md ``` As well as some minor typographical changes this removes an obsolete postal address for the FSF and adjusts a non-normative example. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org>
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### GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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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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<https://fsf.org/>
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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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## Preamble
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The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom
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to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is
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The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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### TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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## TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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**0.** This License applies to any program or other work which
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contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be
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### END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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### How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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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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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper
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(which makes passes at compilers) written
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signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
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Ty Coon, President of Vice
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signature of Moe Ghoul, 1 April 1989
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Moe Ghoul, President of Vice
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This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
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into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library,
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you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
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applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the
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[GNU Lesser General Public
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License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) instead of this
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License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) instead of this
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