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1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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2 Version 3, 29 June 2007
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4 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
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5 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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6 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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8 Preamble
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9
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10 The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for
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11 software and other kinds of works.
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13 The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed
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14 to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast,
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15 the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to
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16 share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free
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17 software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the
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18 GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to
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19 any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to
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20 your programs, too.
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21
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22 When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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23 price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
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24 have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
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25 them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you
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26 want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new
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27 free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
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29 To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you
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30 these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have
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31 certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if
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32 you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.
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34 For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
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35 gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same
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36 freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive
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37 or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they
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38 know their rights.
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40 Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps:
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41 (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License
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42 giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.
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44 For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains
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45 that there is no warranty for this free software. For both users' and
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46 authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as
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47 changed, so that their problems will not be attributed erroneously to
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48 authors of previous versions.
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50 Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run
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51 modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer
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52 can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of
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53 protecting users' freedom to change the software. The systematic
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54 pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to
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55 use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we
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56 have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those
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57 products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we
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58 stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions
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59 of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.
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61 Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents.
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62 States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of
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63 software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to
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64 avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could
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65 make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that
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66 patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.
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68 The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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69 modification follow.
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71 TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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72
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73 0. Definitions.
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74
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75 "This License" refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
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76
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77 "Copyright" also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of
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78 works, such as semiconductor masks.
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79
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80 "The Program" refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this
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81 License. Each licensee is addressed as "you". "Licensees" and
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82 "recipients" may be individuals or organizations.
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83
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84 To "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work
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85 in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an
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86 exact copy. The resulting work is called a "modified version" of the
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87 earlier work or a work "based on" the earlier work.
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88
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89 A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based
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90 on the Program.
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92 To "propagate" a work means to do anything with it that, without
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93 permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for
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94 infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a
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95 computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying,
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96 distribution (with or without modification), making available to the
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97 public, and in some countries other activities as well.
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99 To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other
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100 parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through
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101 a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
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103 An interactive user interface displays "Appropriate Legal Notices"
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104 to the extent that it includes a convenient and prominently visible
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105 feature that (1) displays an appropriate copyright notice, and (2)
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106 tells the user that there is no warranty for the work (except to the
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107 extent that warranties are provided), that licensees may convey the
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108 work under this License, and how to view a copy of this License. If
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109 the interface presents a list of user commands or options, such as a
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110 menu, a prominent item in the list meets this criterion.
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111
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112 1. Source Code.
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114 The "source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work
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115 for making modifications to it. "Object code" means any non-source
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116 form of a work.
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117
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118 A "Standard Interface" means an interface that either is an official
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119 standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case of
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120 interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that
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121 is widely used among developers working in that language.
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122
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123 The "System Libraries" of an executable work include anything, other
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124 than the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the normal form of
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125 packaging a Major Component, but which is not part of that Major
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126 Component, and (b) serves only to enable use of the work with that
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127 Major Component, or to implement a Standard Interface for which an
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128 implementation is available to the public in source code form. A
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129 "Major Component", in this context, means a major essential component
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130 (kernel, window system, and so on) of the specific operating system
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131 (if any) on which the executable work runs, or a compiler used to
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132 produce the work, or an object code interpreter used to run it.
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134 The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all
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135 the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable
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136 work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to
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137 control those activities. However, it does not include the work's
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138 System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free
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139 programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but
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140 which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source
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141 includes interface definition files associated with source files for
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142 the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically
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143 linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require,
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144 such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those
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145 subprograms and other parts of the work.
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147 The Corresponding Source need not include anything that users
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148 can regenerate automatically from other parts of the Corresponding
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149 Source.
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150
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151 The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that
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152 same work.
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153
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154 2. Basic Permissions.
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155
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156 All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of
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157 copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated
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158 conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited
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159 permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a
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160 covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its
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161 content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your
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162 rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.
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164 You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not
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167 of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you
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168 with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with
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169 the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do
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170 not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works
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171 for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction
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172 and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of
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175 Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under
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176 the conditions stated below. Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10
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181 No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological
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182 measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article
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183 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or
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184 similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such
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185 measures.
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187 When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
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188 circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
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189 is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to
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190 the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
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191 modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
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192 users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
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193 technological measures.
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195 4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.
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197 You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you
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198 receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
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199 appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice;
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200 keep intact all notices stating that this License and any
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201 non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code;
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202 keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all
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203 recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.
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205 You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey,
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206 and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.
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208 5. Conveying Modified Source Versions.
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210 You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to
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211 produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the
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212 terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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214 a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified
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215 it, and giving a relevant date.
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217 b) The work must carry prominent notices stating that it is
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218 released under this License and any conditions added under section
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219 7. This requirement modifies the requirement in section 4 to
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220 "keep intact all notices".
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222 c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this
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223 License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This
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224 License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7
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225 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts,
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226 regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no
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227 permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not
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228 invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.
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229
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230 d) If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display
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231 Appropriate Legal Notices; however, if the Program has interactive
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232 interfaces that do not display Appropriate Legal Notices, your
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233 work need not make them do so.
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234
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235 A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent
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236 works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work,
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237 and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program,
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238 in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an
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239 "aggregate" if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not
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240 used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users
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241 beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work
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242 in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other
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243 parts of the aggregate.
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245 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.
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246
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247 You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms
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248 of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the
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249 machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License,
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250 in one of these ways:
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251
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252 a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
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253 (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the
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254 Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium
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255 customarily used for software interchange.
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256
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257 b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
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258 (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a
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259 written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as
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260 long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product
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261 model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a
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262 copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the
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263 product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical
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264 medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no
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265 more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this
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266 conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
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267 Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
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269 c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the
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270 written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This
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271 alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and
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272 only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord
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273 with subsection 6b.
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275 d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated
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276 place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the
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277 Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no
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278 further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the
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279 Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to
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280 copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source
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281 may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party)
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282 that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain
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283 clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the
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284 Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the
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285 Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is
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286 available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.
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287
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288 e) Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided
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289 you inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding
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290 Source of the work are being offered to the general public at no
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291 charge under subsection 6d.
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293 A separable portion of the object code, whose source code is excluded
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294 from the Corresponding Source as a System Library, need not be
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295 included in conveying the object code work.
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297 A "User Product" is either (1) a "consumer product", which means any
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298 tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family,
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299 or household purposes, or (2) anything designed or sold for incorporation
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300 into a dwelling. In determining whether a product is a consumer product,
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301 doubtful cases shall be resolved in favor of coverage. For a particular
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302 product received by a particular user, "normally used" refers to a
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303 typical or common use of that class of product, regardless of the status
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304 of the particular user or of the way in which the particular user
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305 actually uses, or expects or is expected to use, the product. A product
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306 is a consumer product regardless of whether the product has substantial
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307 commercial, industrial or non-consumer uses, unless such uses represent
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308 the only significant mode of use of the product.
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309
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310 "Installation Information" for a User Product means any methods,
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311 procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install
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312 and execute modified versions of a covered work in that User Product from
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313 a modified version of its Corresponding Source. The information must
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314 suffice to ensure that the continued functioning of the modified object
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315 code is in no case prevented or interfered with solely because
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316 modification has been made.
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318 If you convey an object code work under this section in, or with, or
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319 specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying occurs as
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320 part of a transaction in which the right of possession and use of the
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321 User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a
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322 fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), the
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323 Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must be accompanied
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324 by the Installation Information. But this requirement does not apply
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325 if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install
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326 modified object code on the User Product (for example, the work has
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327 been installed in ROM).
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328
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329 The requirement to provide Installation Information does not include a
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330 requirement to continue to provide support service, warranty, or updates
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331 for a work that has been modified or installed by the recipient, or for
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332 the User Product in which it has been modified or installed. Access to a
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333 network may be denied when the modification itself materially and
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334 adversely affects the operation of the network or violates the rules and
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335 protocols for communication across the network.
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336
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337 Corresponding Source conveyed, and Installation Information provided,
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338 in accord with this section must be in a format that is publicly
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339 documented (and with an implementation available to the public in
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340 source code form), and must require no special password or key for
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341 unpacking, reading or copying.
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342
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343 7. Additional Terms.
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345 "Additional permissions" are terms that supplement the terms of this
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346 License by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions.
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347 Additional permissions that are applicable to the entire Program shall
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348 be treated as though they were included in this License, to the extent
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349 that they are valid under applicable law. If additional permissions
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350 apply only to part of the Program, that part may be used separately
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351 under those permissions, but the entire Program remains governed by
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352 this License without regard to the additional permissions.
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353
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354 When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option
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355 remove any additional permissions from that copy, or from any part of
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356 it. (Additional permissions may be written to require their own
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357 removal in certain cases when you modify the work.) You may place
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358 additional permissions on material, added by you to a covered work,
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359 for which you have or can give appropriate copyright permission.
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360
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361 Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you
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362 add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of
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363 that material) supplement the terms of this License with terms:
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364
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365 a) Disclaiming warranty or limiting liability differently from the
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366 terms of sections 15 and 16 of this License; or
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367
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368 b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or
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369 author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal
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370 Notices displayed by works containing it; or
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371
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372 c) Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material, or
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373 requiring that modified versions of such material be marked in
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374 reasonable ways as different from the original version; or
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375
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376 d) Limiting the use for publicity purposes of names of licensors or
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377 authors of the material; or
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378
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379 e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some
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380 trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or
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381
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382 f) Requiring indemnification of licensors and authors of that
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383 material by anyone who conveys the material (or modified versions of
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384 it) with contractual assumptions of liability to the recipient, for
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385 any liability that these contractual assumptions directly impose on
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386 those licensors and authors.
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387
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388 All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further
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389 restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you
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390 received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is
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391 governed by this License along with a term that is a further
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392 restriction, you may remove that term. If a license document contains
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393 a further restriction but permits relicensing or conveying under this
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394 License, you may add to a covered work material governed by the terms
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395 of that license document, provided that the further restriction does
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396 not survive such relicensing or conveying.
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397
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398 If you add terms to a covered work in accord with this section, you
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399 must place, in the relevant source files, a statement of the
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400 additional terms that apply to those files, or a notice indicating
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401 where to find the applicable terms.
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403 Additional terms, permissive or non-permissive, may be stated in the
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404 form of a separately written license, or stated as exceptions;
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405 the above requirements apply either way.
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406
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407 8. Termination.
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408
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409 You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly
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410 provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or
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411 modify it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under
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412 this License (including any patent licenses granted under the third
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413 paragraph of section 11).
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414
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415 However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your
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416 license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a)
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417 provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and
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418 finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright
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419 holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means
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420 prior to 60 days after the cessation.
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421
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422 Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
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423 reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
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424 violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
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425 received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
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426 copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
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427 your receipt of the notice.
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429 Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the
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430 licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under
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431 this License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently
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432 reinstated, you do not qualify to receive new licenses for the same
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433 material under section 10.
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434
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435 9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
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436
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437 You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or
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438 run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work
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439 occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission
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440 to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However,
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441 nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or
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442 modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do
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443 not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a
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444 covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.
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445
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446 10. Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients.
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447
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448 Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically
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449 receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and
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450 propagate that work, subject to this License. You are not responsible
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451 for enforcing compliance by third parties with this License.
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452
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453 An "entity transaction" is a transaction transferring control of an
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454 organization, or substantially all assets of one, or subdividing an
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455 organization, or merging organizations. If propagation of a covered
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456 work results from an entity transaction, each party to that
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457 transaction who receives a copy of the work also receives whatever
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458 licenses to the work the party's predecessor in interest had or could
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459 give under the previous paragraph, plus a right to possession of the
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460 Corresponding Source of the work from the predecessor in interest, if
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461 the predecessor has it or can get it with reasonable efforts.
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462
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463 You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the
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464 rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may
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465 not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of
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466 rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation
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467 (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that
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468 any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for
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469 sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.
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470
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471 11. Patents.
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472
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473 A "contributor" is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this
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474 License of the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The
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475 work thus licensed is called the contributor's "contributor version".
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476
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477 A contributor's "essential patent claims" are all patent claims
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478 owned or controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired or
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479 hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some manner, permitted
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480 by this License, of making, using, or selling its contributor version,
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481 but do not include claims that would be infringed only as a
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482 consequence of further modification of the contributor version. For
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483 purposes of this definition, "control" includes the right to grant
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484 patent sublicenses in a manner consistent with the requirements of
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485 this License.
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486
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487 Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free
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488 patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to
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489 make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and
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490 propagate the contents of its contributor version.
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491
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492 In the following three paragraphs, a "patent license" is any express
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493 agreement or commitment, however denominated, not to enforce a patent
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494 (such as an express permission to practice a patent or covenant not to
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495 sue for patent infringement). To "grant" such a patent license to a
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496 party means to make such an agreement or commitment not to enforce a
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497 patent against the party.
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499 If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license,
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500 and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone
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501 to copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License, through a
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502 publicly available network server or other readily accessible means,
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503 then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so
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504 available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the
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505 patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner
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506 consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent
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507 license to downstream recipients. "Knowingly relying" means you have
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508 actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the
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509 covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work
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510 in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that
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511 country that you have reason to believe are valid.
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512
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513 If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or
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514 arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a
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515 covered work, and grant a patent license to some of the parties
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516 receiving the covered work authorizing them to use, propagate, modify
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517 or convey a specific copy of the covered work, then the patent license
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518 you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of the covered
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519 work and works based on it.
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521 A patent license is "discriminatory" if it does not include within
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522 the scope of its coverage, prohibits the exercise of, or is
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523 conditioned on the non-exercise of one or more of the rights that are
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524 specifically granted under this License. You may not convey a covered
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525 work if you are a party to an arrangement with a third party that is
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526 in the business of distributing software, under which you make payment
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527 to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying
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528 the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the
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529 parties who would receive the covered work from you, a discriminatory
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530 patent license (a) in connection with copies of the covered work
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531 conveyed by you (or copies made from those copies), or (b) primarily
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532 for and in connection with specific products or compilations that
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533 contain the covered work, unless you entered into that arrangement,
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534 or that patent license was granted, prior to 28 March 2007.
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535
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536 Nothing in this License shall be construed as excluding or limiting
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537 any implied license or other defenses to infringement that may
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538 otherwise be available to you under applicable patent law.
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539
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540 12. No Surrender of Others' Freedom.
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541
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542 If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
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543 otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
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544 excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot convey a
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545 covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
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546 License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may
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547 not convey it at all. For example, if you agree to terms that obligate you
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548 to collect a royalty for further conveying from those to whom you convey
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549 the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this
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550 License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.
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551
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552 13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License.
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553
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554 Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have
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555 permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed
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556 under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License into a single
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557 combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this
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558 License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work,
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559 but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License,
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560 section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the
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561 combination as such.
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562
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563 14. Revised Versions of this License.
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564
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565 The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of
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566 the GNU General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
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567 be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
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568 address new problems or concerns.
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569
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570 Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the
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571 Program specifies that a certain numbered version of the GNU General
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572 Public License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the
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573 option of following the terms and conditions either of that numbered
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574 version or of any later version published by the Free Software
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575 Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of the
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576 GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published
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577 by the Free Software Foundation.
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578
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579 If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future
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580 versions of the GNU General Public License can be used, that proxy's
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581 public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you
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582 to choose that version for the Program.
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583
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584 Later license versions may give you additional or different
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585 permissions. However, no additional obligations are imposed on any
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586 author or copyright holder as a result of your choosing to follow a
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587 later version.
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588
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589 15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
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590
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591 THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
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592 APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
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593 HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
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594 OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
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595 THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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596 PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM
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597 IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
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598 ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
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599
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600 16. Limitation of Liability.
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601
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602 IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
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603 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS
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604 THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
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605 GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
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606 USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
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607 DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
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608 PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
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609 EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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610 SUCH DAMAGES.
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611
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612 17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
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613
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614 If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
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615 above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
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616 reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates
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617 an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
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618 Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
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619 copy of the Program in return for a fee.
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620
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621 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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622
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623 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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624
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625 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
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626 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
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627 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
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628
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629 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
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630 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
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631 state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
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632 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
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633
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634 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
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635 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
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636
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637 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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638 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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639 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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640 (at your option) any later version.
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641
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642 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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643 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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644 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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645 GNU General Public License for more details.
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646
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647 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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648 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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649
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650 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
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651
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652 If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
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653 notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
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654
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655 <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
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656 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
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657 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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658 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
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660 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
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661 parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands
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662 might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
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663
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664 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
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665 if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
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666 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
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667 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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668
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669 The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
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670 into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
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671 may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
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672 the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
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673 Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
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674 <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.