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Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011 Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released! Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team, the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing a great forum for collaboration and testing. The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription. As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions, and feedback. :-) Have fun!
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<p class="LITERALLAYOUT">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE<br />
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Version 2, June 1991<br />
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Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.<br />
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<p>The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and
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SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
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Your New Programs</a></h4>
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<p>If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to
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the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can
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redistribute and change under these terms.</p>
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<p>To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to
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the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and
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each file should have at least the “copyright” line and a pointer to where
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the full notice is found.</p>
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<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
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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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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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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
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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<p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.</p>
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<p>If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts
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in an interactive mode:</p>
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<pre class="SCREEN">
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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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<p>The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of
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the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be called something other
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than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits
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your program.</p>
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<p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if
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any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if necessary. Here is
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a sample; alter the names:</p>
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<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">
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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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