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470 | convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the | ||||
471 | "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. | ||||
472 | | ||||
473 | <one line to give the library's name and a brief idea of what it does.> | ||||
474 | Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> | ||||
475 | | ||||
476 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | ||||
477 | modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public | ||||
478 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | ||||
479 | version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. | ||||
480 | | ||||
481 | This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | ||||
482 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | ||||
483 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | ||||
484 | Lesser General Public License for more details. | ||||
485 | | ||||
486 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public | ||||
487 | License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software | ||||
488 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | ||||
489 | | ||||
490 | Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. | ||||
491 | | ||||
492 | You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your | ||||
493 | school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if | ||||
494 | necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: | ||||
495 | | ||||
496 | Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the | ||||
497 | library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker. | ||||
498 | | ||||
499 | <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990 | ||||
500 | Ty Coon, President of Vice | ||||
501 | | ||||
502 | That's all there is to it! |