Copyright
=========

Ipe is "free," this means that everyone is free to use it and free to
redistribute it on certain conditions. Ipe is not in the public
domain; it is copyrighted and there are restrictions on its
distribution as follows:
  
Copyright © 1993--2023 Otfried Cheong
  
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
     
As a special exception, you have permission to link Ipe with the CGAL
library and distribute executables, as long as you follow the
requirements of the Gnu General Public License in regard to all of the
software in the executable aside from CGAL.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
*without any warranty*; without even the implied warranty of
*merchantability* or *fitness for a particular purpose*.  See the `GNU
General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>`_ for
more details.

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   A copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the World
   Wide web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. You can also
   obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
   Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.