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on the Program), you indicate your
acceptance of this License to do so, and all
its terms and conditions for copying,
distributing or modifying the Program or
works based on it.

6.

Each time you redistribute the Program (or
any work based on the Program), the
recipient automatically receives a license
from the original licensor to copy, distribute
or modify the Program subject to these
terms and conditions. You may not impose
any further restrictions on the recipients’
exercise of the rights granted herein. You
are not responsible for enforcing
compliance by third parties to this License.

7.

If, as a consequence of a court judgment or
allegation of patent infringement or for any
other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you (whether by
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they do not excuse you from the conditions
of this License. If you cannot distribute so as
to satisfy simultaneously your obligations
under this License and any other pertinent
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not distribute the Program at all. For
example, if a patent license would not
permit royalty-free redistribution of the
Program by all those who receive copies
directly or indirectly through you, then the
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License would be to refrain entirely from
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If any portion of this section is held invalid
or unenforceable under any particular
circumstance, the balance of the section is
intended to apply and the section as a whole
is intended to apply in other circumstances.
It is not the purpose of this section to induce
you to infringe any patents or other property
right claims or to contest validity of any
such claims; this section has the sole
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implemented by public license practices.
Many people have made generous
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is willing to distribute software through any
other system and a licensee cannot impose
that choice.
This section is intended to make thoroughly
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of the rest of this License.

8.

If the distribution and/or use of the Program
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this License incorporates the limitation as if
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The Free Software Foundation may publish
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Public License from time to time. Such new
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NO WARRANTY

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS

LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE
IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE
PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BYAPPLICABLE LAW.
EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED
IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
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AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD
THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE,
YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIROR
CORRECTION.

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APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your
New Programs

If you develop a new program, and you want it to
be of the greatest possible use to the public, the
best way to achieve this is to make it free
software which everyone can redistribute and
change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the
program. It is safest to attach them to the start of
each source file to most effectively convey the
exclusion of warranty; and each file should have
at least the “copyright” line and a pointer to
where the full notice is found.

<one line to give the program’s name and an
idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) yyyy name of author

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 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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 for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU
General Public License along with this program;
if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307, USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by
electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a
short notice like this when it starts in an
interactive mode:

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C)
year name of author
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY
NO WARRANTY; for details type ‘show
w’. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; type ‘show c’ for details.

The hypothetical commands ‘show w’ and ‘show
c’ should show the appropriate parts of the
General Public License. Of course, the
commands you use may be called something
other than ‘show w’ and ‘show c’; they could
even be mouse-clicks or menu items-whatever
suits your program.
You should also get your employer (if you work
as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign
a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright
interest in the program ‘Gnomovision’ (which
makes passes at compilers) written by James
Hacker.

signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit
incorporating your program into proprietary
programs. If your program is a subroutine
library, you may consider it more useful to
permit linking proprietary applications with the
library. If this is what you want to do, use the
GNU Lesser General Public License instead of
this License.

GNU Lesser General Public
License

Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-
1307, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute
verbatim copies of this license document, but
changing it is not allowed.
[This is the first released version of the Lesser
GPL. It also counts as the successor of the GNU
Library Public License, version 2, hence the
version number2.1.]

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to
take away your freedom to share and change it.
By contrast, the GNU General Public Licenses
are intended to guarantee your freedom to share
and change free software-to make sure the
software is free for all its users. This license, the
Lesser General Public License, applies to some
specially designated software packages-typically
libraries-of the Free Software Foundation and
other authors who decide to use it. You can use it
too, but we suggest you first think carefully about
whether this license or the ordinary General
Public License is the better strategy to use in any
particular case, based on the explanations below.
When we speak of free software, we are referring
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Licenses are designed to make sure that you have
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To protect your rights, we need to make
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the library or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of the
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the recipients all the rights that we gave you. You
must make sure that they, too, receive or can get
the source code. If you link other code with the
library, you must provide complete object files to
the recipients, so that they can relink them with
the library after making changes to the library

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