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   283  	    How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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   310  
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   312  Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
   313  
   314  If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
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   317      Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
   318      Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
   319      This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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   322  The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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   324  be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
   325  mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
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   331    Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
   332    `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
   333  
   334    <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
   335    Ty Coon, President of Vice
   336  
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