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| The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom |
| to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is |
| intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free |
| software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This |
| General Public License applies to most of the Free Software |
| Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to |
| using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by |
| the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to |
| your programs, too. |
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| When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not |
| price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you |
| have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for |
| this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it |
| if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it |
| in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. |
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| To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid |
| anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the |
| rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for |
| you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it. |
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| For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether |
| gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that |
| you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the |
| source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their |
| rights. |
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| We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and |
| (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, |
| distribute and/or modify the software. |
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| Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain |
| that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free |
| software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, |
| we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the |
| original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect |
| on the original authors' reputations. |
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| Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software |
| patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free |
| program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the |
| program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any |
| patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at |
| all. |
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| The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and |
| modification follow. |
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| TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION |
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| 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a |
| notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed |
| under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, |
| refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" |
| means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: |
| that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, |
| either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another |
| language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in |
| the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you". |
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| Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not |
| covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of |
| running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program |
| is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program |
| (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that |
| is true depends on what the Program does. |
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| 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source |
| code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously |
| and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice |
| and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to |
| this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other |
| recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the |
| Program. |
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| You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and |
| you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a |
| fee. |
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| 2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of |
| it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute |
| such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, |
| provided that you also meet all of these conditions: |
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| a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices |
| stating that you changed the files and the date of any change. |
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| b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that |
| in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or |
| any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all |
| third parties under the terms of this License. |
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| c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively |
| when run, you must cause it, when started running for such |
| interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an |
| announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a |
| notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you |
| provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program |
| under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy |
| of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive |
| but does not normally print such an announcement, your work based |
| on the Program is not required to print an announcement.) |
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| These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If |
| identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, |
| and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in |
| themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those |
| sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you |
| distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based |
| on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of |
| this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the |
| entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote |
| it. |
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| Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest |
| your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to |
| exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or |
| collective works based on the Program. |
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| In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program |
| with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of |
| a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under |
| the scope of this License. |
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| 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, |
| under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of |
| Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: |
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| a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable |
| source code, which must be distributed under the terms of |
| Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software |
| interchange; or, |
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| b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three |
| years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your |
| cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete |
| machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be |
| distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium |
| customarily used for software interchange; or, |
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| c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer |
| to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is |
| allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you |
| received the program in object code or executable form with such |
| an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) |
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| The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for |
| making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source |
| code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any |
| associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to |
| control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a |
| special exception, the source code distributed need not include |
| anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary |
| form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the |
| operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component |
| itself accompanies the executable. |
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| If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering |
| access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent |
| access to copy the source code from the same place counts as |
| distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not |
| compelled to copy the source along with the object code. |
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| 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program |
| except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise |
| to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and |
| will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, |
| parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this |
| License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such |
| parties remain in full compliance. |
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| 5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not |
| signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or |
| distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are |
| prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by |
| modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 court order, agreement or |
| otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, 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 obligations, then as a consequence you |
| may 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 only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to |
| refrain entirely from distribution of the Program. |
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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. |
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| 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 purpose of protecting the |
| integrity of the free software distribution system, which is |
| implemented by public license practices. Many people have made |
| generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed |
| through that system in reliance on consistent application of that |
| system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing |
| to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot |
| impose that choice. |
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| This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to |
| be a consequence of the rest of this License. |
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| 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in |
| certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the |
| original copyright holder who places the Program under this License |
| may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding |
| those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among |
| countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates |
| the limitation as if written in the body of this License. |
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| 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new |
| versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new |
| versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may |
| differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. |
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| Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program |
| specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and |
| "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and |
| conditions either of that version or of any later version published by |
| the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a |
| version number of this License, you may choose any version ever |
| published by the Free Software Foundation. |
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| 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free |
| programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the |
| author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the |
| Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we |
| sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the |
| two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free |
| software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. |
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| NO WARRANTY |
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| 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO |
| WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE |
| LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS |
| AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY 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. |
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| 12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN |
| WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY |
| AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE 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. |
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| END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS |