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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode: Copyright (C) This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w’.This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c’ for details.The hypothetical commands `show w’ and `show c’ should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License. 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