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654 <p>IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
655 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR
656 CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
657 INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
658 ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT
659 NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR
660 LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM
661 TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER
662 PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
664 <li>Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
666 <p>If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
667 above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
668 reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates
669 an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
670 Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
671 copy of the Program in return for a fee.
675 <h3 class="heading">END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS</h3>
677 <h3 class="heading">How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs</h3>
679 <p>If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
680 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
681 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these
684 <p>To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
685 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
686 state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
687 the “copyright” line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
689 <pre class="smallexample"> <var>one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.</var>
690 Copyright (C) <var>year</var> <var>name of author</var>
692 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
693 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
694 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
695 your option) any later version.
697 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
698 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
699 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
700 General Public License for more details.
702 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
703 along with this program. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.
705 <p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
707 <p>If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
708 notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
710 <pre class="smallexample"> <var>program</var> Copyright (C) <var>year</var> <var>name of author</var>
711 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type ‘<samp><span class="samp">show w</span></samp>’.
712 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
713 under certain conditions; type ‘<samp><span class="samp">show c</span></samp>’ for details.
715 <p>The hypothetical commands ‘<samp><span class="samp">show w</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">show c</span></samp>’ should show
716 the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, your
717 program's commands might be different; for a GUI interface, you would
718 use an “about box”.
720 <p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
721 if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if necessary.
722 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
723 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.
725 <p>The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your
726 program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine
727 library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
728 applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use
729 the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License. But
730 first, please read <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html</a>.
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