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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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<title>Not the Gnu General Public License</title>
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<h1><em>Not</em> the Gnu General Public License</h1>

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<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript
overview</a>.

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<p>
Many versions of Ghostscript, including all versions created before June
1993, are customarily distributed with a license called the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" class="offsite">GNU
General Public
License</a> (GPL); in these versions, a file named <b><tt>COPYING</tt></b>
contains a copy of the license.  This copy of Ghostscript is governed not
by the GNU license, but by a substantially different license in a similar
spirit, the <a href="Public.htm">Aladdin Free Public License</a>.

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<small>Copyright &copy; 1996, 1997, 1998 Aladdin Enterprises.
All rights reserved.</small>

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<small>This file is part of AFPL Ghostscript.  See the
<a href="Public.htm">Aladdin Free Public License</a> (the "License") for
full details of the terms of using, copying, modifying, and redistributing
AFPL Ghostscript.</small>

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<small>Ghostscript version 7.02, 22 September 2001

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