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Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY
NO WARRANTY; for details type `show
w' . This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under
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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all
copyright interest in the program
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at
compilers) written by James Hacker.
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
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