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612 whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
613 part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
614 parties under the terms of this License.
615
616 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
617 when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
618 interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
619 announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
620 notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
621 a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
622 these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
623 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
624 does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
625 the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
626
627 These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
628 identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
629 and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
630 themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
631 sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
632 distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
633 on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
634 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
635 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
636
637 Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
638 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
639 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
640 collective works based on the Program.
641
642 In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
643 with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
644 a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
645 the scope of this License.
646
647 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
648 under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
649 Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
650
651 a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
652 source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
653 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
654
655 b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
656 years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
657 cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
658 machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
659 distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
660 customarily used for software interchange; or,
661
662 c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
663 to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
664 allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
665 received the program in object code or executable form with such
666 an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
667
668 The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
669 making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
670 code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
671 associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
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673 special exception, the source code distributed need not include
674 anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
675 form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
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678
679 If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
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682 distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
683 compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
684
685 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
686 except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
687 otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
688 void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
689 However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
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692
693 5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
694 signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
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699 all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
700 the Program or works based on it.
701
702 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
703 Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
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710 7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
711 infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
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717 may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
718 license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
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720 the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
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722
723 If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
724 any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to
725 apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
726 circumstances.
727
728 It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
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731 integrity of the free software distribution system, which is
732 implemented by public license practices. Many people have made
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736 to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot
737 impose that choice.
738
739 This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to
740 be a consequence of the rest of this License.
741
742 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in
743 certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the
744 original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
745 may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding
746 those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among
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749
750 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
751 of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
752 be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to
753 address new problems or concerns.
754
755 Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
756 specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any
757 later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
758 either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
759 Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
760 this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
761 Foundation.
762
763 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
764 programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author
765 to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
766 Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes
767 make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals
768 of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and
769 of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
770
771 NO WARRANTY
772
773 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
774 FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
775 OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES
776 PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
777 OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
778 MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
779 TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
780 PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
781 REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
782
783 12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
784 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
785 REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
786 INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
787 OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
788 TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
789 YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
790 PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
791 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
792
793 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
794
795 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
796
797 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
798 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
799 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
800
801 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
802 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
803 convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
804 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
805
806 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
807 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
808
809 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
810 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
811 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
812 (at your option) any later version.
813
814 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
815 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
816 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
817 GNU General Public License for more details.
818
819 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
820 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
821 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
822
823
824 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
825
826 If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
827 when it starts in an interactive mode:
828
829 Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
830 Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
831 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
832 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
833
834 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
835 parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
836 be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
837 mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
838
839 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
840 school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
841 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
842
843 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
844 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
845
846 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
847 Ty Coon, President of Vice
848
849 This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
850 proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
851 consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
852 library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
853 Public License instead of this License.

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