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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.
8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by
copyrighted inter faces, the original co pyright holder who pl aces the Program und er this License may add an
explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only
in or among countries not t hus excluded. In such c ase, this License i ncorporates the l imitation as if wr itten in
the body of this License.
9. The Free Softwar e Foundation may publis h revised and/or new ver sions of the General P ublic 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.
Each version is given a di stinguishing version n umber. If the Program specif ies a version number of th is
License which applies to i t and “any later versio n”, you have the option of followi ng the terms and condi tions
either of that versio n or of any later version publish ed by the Free Software Fou ndation. If the Progra m
does not specify a vers ion number of this License , you may choose any version ever p ublished by the Free
Software Foundation.
10. If you w ish to incorporate pa rts of the Progr am into other free prog rams whose distr ibution conditions a re
different, wri te to the author to ask fo r permission. For sof tware which is copy righted by the Free Sof tware
Foundation, writ e to the Free Software F oundation; we sometime s make exceptions for this. O ur decision
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promoting the shari ng and reuse of soft ware generally.
NO WARRANTY
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INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
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YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL N ECESSARY SERVICI NG, REPAIR OR CORR ECTION.
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COPYRIGHT HOLDE R, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODI FY AND/OR REDISTR IBUTE THE
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END OF TERMS AND COND ITIONS
Appendix: How to Appl y These Terms to Your New Progr ams
If you develop a new progr am, and you want it to be of the g reatest possible us e to the public, the best w ay to
achieve this is to make it fr ee software whi ch everyone can re distribute a nd change under these t erms.
To do so, attach the following no tices to the program. I t is safest to attach th em to the start of eac h source file
to most effectivel y convey the exclusion of war ranty; and each fi le should have at leas t the “copyright” lin e and a
pointer to where the fu ll notice is found.
<one line to give the progr am’s name and a brief i dea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) 19yy <name of au thor>
This program is fre e software; you can redi stribute it and/or mod ify it under the terms of th e GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is dis tributed in the hope t hat it will be useful, but W ITHOUT ANY WARR ANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public Lice nse for more details .
You should have received a copy of the GNU G eneral Public Li cense along with this pr ogram; if not, wri te to the
Free Software Fo undation, Inc. , 675 Mass Ave, Cambri dge, MA 02139, USA.
Also add information on h ow to contact you by elec tronic and paper ma il.