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                    470: Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
                    471: 
                    472: You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
                    473: school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if
                    474: necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
                    475: 
                    476:   Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
                    477:   library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
                    478: 
                    479:   <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
                    480:   Ty Coon, President of Vice
                    481: 
                    482: That's all there is to it!

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