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576 the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this
577 License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.
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579 <h5 id=
"section13">13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License.
</h5>
581 <p>Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have
582 permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed
583 under version
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585 License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work,
586 but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License,
587 section
13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the
588 combination as such.
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590 <h5 id=
"section14">14. Revised Versions of this License.
</h5>
592 <p>The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of
593 the GNU General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
594 be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
595 address new problems or concerns.
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597 <p>Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the
598 Program specifies that a certain numbered version of the GNU General
599 Public License
“or any later version
” applies to it, you have the
600 option of following the terms and conditions either of that numbered
601 version or of any later version published by the Free Software
602 Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of the
603 GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published
604 by the Free Software Foundation.
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606 <p>If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future
607 versions of the GNU General Public License can be used, that proxy's
608 public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you
609 to choose that version for the Program.
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611 <p>Later license versions may give you additional or different
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616 <h5 id=
"section15">15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
</h5>
618 <p>THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
619 APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
620 HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM
“AS IS
” WITHOUT WARRANTY
621 OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
622 THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
623 PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM
624 IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
625 ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
</p>
627 <h5 id=
"section16">16. Limitation of Liability.
</h5>
629 <p>IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
630 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS
631 THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
632 GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
633 USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
634 DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
635 PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
636 EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
639 <h5 id=
"section17">17. Interpretation of Sections
15 and
16.
</h5>
641 <p>If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
642 above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
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648 <p>END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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650 <h4 id=
"howto">How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
</h4>
652 <p>If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
653 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
654 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
</p>
656 <p>To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
657 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
658 state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
659 the
“copyright
” line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
</p>
661 <pre> <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.
>
662 Copyright (C)
<year
> <name of author
>
664 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
665 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
666 the Free Software Foundation, either version
3 of the License, or
667 (at your option) any later version.
669 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
670 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
671 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
672 GNU General Public License for more details.
674 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
675 along with this program. If not, see
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/
>.
678 <p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
</p>
680 <p>If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
681 notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
</p>
683 <pre> <program
> Copyright (C)
<year
> <name of author
>
684 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
685 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
686 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
689 <p>The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
690 parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands
691 might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an
“about box
”.
</p>
693 <p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
694 if any, to sign a
“copyright disclaimer
” for the program, if necessary.
695 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
696 <<a href=
"https://www.gnu.org/licenses/">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/
</a>>.
</p>
698 <p>The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
699 into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
700 may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
701 the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
702 Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
703 <<a href=
"https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
</a>>.
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