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20        <h1>TSPSG License</h1>
21        <p>TSP Solver and Generator is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
22        <p>For your convenience the full text of the License is provided here.</p>
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582but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License,
583section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the
584combination as such.
585
586  14. Revised Versions of this License.
587
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591address new problems or concerns.
592
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600by the Free Software Foundation.
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602  If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future
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606
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611
612  15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
613
614  THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
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622
623  16. Limitation of Liability.
624
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635  17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
636
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645
646            How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
647
648  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
649possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
650free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
651
652  To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest
653to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
654state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
655the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
656
657    &lt;one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.&gt;
658    Copyright (C) &lt;year&gt;  &lt;name of author&gt;
659
660    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
661    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
662    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
663    (at your option) any later version.
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665    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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670    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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672
673Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
674
675  If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
676notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
677
678    &lt;program&gt;  Copyright (C) &lt;year&gt;  &lt;name of author&gt;
679    This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
680    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
681    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
682
683The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
684parts of the General Public License.  Of course, your program's commands
685might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
686
687  You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
688if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
689For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
690&lt;<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>&gt;.
691
692  The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
693into proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you
694may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
695the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
696Public License instead of this License.  But first, please read
697&lt;<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html</a>&gt;.</pre>
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