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650 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
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665 may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
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671 If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
672 any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
673 apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
676 It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
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687 This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
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700 be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
701 address new problems or concerns.
703 Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
704 specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
705 later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
706 either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
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711 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
712 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
713 to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
714 Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
715 make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
716 of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
717 of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
721 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
722 FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
723 OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
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725 OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
726 MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
727 TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
728 PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
729 REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
731 12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
732 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
733 REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
734 INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
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736 TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
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741 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
743 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
745 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
746 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
747 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
749 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
750 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
751 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
752 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
754 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
755 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
757 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
758 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
759 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
760 (at your option) any later version.
762 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
763 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
764 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
765 GNU General Public License for more details.
767 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
768 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
769 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
771 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
773 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
774 when it starts in an interactive mode:
776 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
777 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
778 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
779 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
781 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
782 parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
783 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
784 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
786 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
787 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
788 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
790 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
791 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
793 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
794 Ty Coon, President of Vice
796 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
797 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
798 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
799 library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
800 Public License instead of this License.