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1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 2: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3:  4: <html> 5: <head> 6: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta> 7: <title>The Gift that Keeps on Giving</title> 8:  9:  10: </head> 11: <body bgcolor='#ffffff'> 12:  13:   14: <table> 15: <tr><td> 16: 17: 18: GNU General Public License 19: 20: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 21: 22: 23: (shown below) 24: 25: </td> 26: <td width='80'></td> 27: <td> 28: <table> 29: <tr><td> 30: 31: 32: Freeware and the free Linux operating system mean better 33: features, better support, and a 34: more reliable future for your institution's educational 35: mission. 36: 37: Learn more about freeware and many other freeware success stories 38: [<a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Personal_Pages/">A</a>] 39: [<a href= 40: "http://www.users.qwest.net/~bcaplin/talks/case/html/index.html">B</a>] 41: [<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html">C</a>] 42: [<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/news/0609/09apache.html">D</a>] 43: [<a href="http://www.directionsmag.com/features.asp?FeatureID=12">E</a>] 44: [<a href="http://freshmeat.net/">F</a>] 45: [<a href="http://sourceforge.net/">G</a>] 46: [<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/">H</a>] 47: [<a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/success/">I</a>] 48: [<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/hereshow/article/0,aid,11379,00.asp">J</a>] 49: 50: 51: </td></tr></table> 52: </td></tr></table> 53:   54:  55:  56: <pre> 57: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 58: Version 2, June 1991 59: 60: Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 61: 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 62: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies 63: of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 64: 65: Preamble 66: 67: The licenses for most software are designed to take away your 68: freedom to share and change it. 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