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AppendixE. License Conditions

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ofthis License.

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Thisoption is useful when you wish to copy part of the code of the Library into a program that is not a library.

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executableform under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you accompany it with the complete

correspondingmachine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2

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andsmall inline functions (ten lines or less in length), then the use of the object ﬁle is unrestricted, regardless

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Libraryto produce a work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work under terms of your

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engineeringfor debugging such modiﬁcations.

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