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OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM
IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
16.
Limitation of Liability.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/
OR CONVEYS
THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGES.
17.
Interpretation of Sections 15
and
16.
If the disclaimer of warranty and
limitation of liability provided
above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates
an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
Program, unless a warranty or
assumption of liability accompanies a
copy of the Program in return
for
a fee.
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
state the exclusion of warranty; and
each file should have at least
the "copyright"
line and
a pointer to where the full notice is found.
&
lt;one line to give the program's name and
a brief idea of what it does.&
gt;
Copyright (C) &
lt;year&
gt; &
lt;name of author&
gt;
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 3
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
, see &
lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and
paper mail.
If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:
&
lt;program&
gt; Copyright (C) &
lt;year&
gt; &
lt;name of author&
gt;
This program 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, your program's commands
might be different; for
a GUI interface, you would use an "about box"
.
You should also get your employer (if
you work as a programmer) or
school,
if
any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer"
for
the program, if
necessary.
For more information on this
, and
how to apply and
follow the GNU GPL, see
&
lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
The GNU 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. But first, please read
&
lt;http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.