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This section is in tended to make thoro ughly clear what is be lieved to be a consequen ce of the rest of this
License.
8. If the dis tribution an d/or use of the Progra m is restricte d in certain count ries either by pat ents or by
copyrighted inte rfaces, the or iginal copyright ho lder who places the Pr ogram under this L icense may add an
explicit geogr aphical distr ibution limita tion excluding those co untries, so that d istributio n is permitted on ly
in or among countri es not thus excluded. I n such case, this Li cense incorpora tes the limitatio n as if written
in the body of this Lice nse.
9. The Free Software Fou ndation may publish r evised and/or new ver sions of the Gener al Public License fr om
time to time. Such n ew versions will be si milar in spirit to t he present versi on, but may differ in d etail to
address new prob lems or concerns.
Each version is gi ven a distinguishi ng version numbe r. If the Program speci es a version numb er of this
License which appl ies to it and “any later ver sion”, you have the option of fo llowing the terms a nd conditions
either of that ver sion or of any later ver sion published by th e Free Softwar e Foundation. If th e Program
does not specify a ve rsion number of th is License, you may choos e any version ever pub lished by the Free
Software Fou ndation.
10. If you wish to incorp orate parts of t he Program into ot her free progra ms whose distrib ution conditions a re
different, w rite to the autho r to ask for permissi on. For softwar e which is copyright ed by the Free Softw are
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will be guided by the t wo goals of preser ving the free sta tus of all derivati ves of our free soft ware and of
promoting the sha ring and reuse of sof tware gener ally.
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PROGRAM, TO TH E EXTENT PERM ITTED BY APPLIC ABLE LAW. EXCEPT WH EN OTHERWISE
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PROGRAM “AS IS” WI THOUT WARRAN TY OF ANY KIND, E ITHER EXPRES SED OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, B UT NOT LIMITED TO, THE I MPLIED WARRA NTIES OF MERCHA NTABILITY
AND FITNESS FO R A PARTICULAR PUR POSE. THE ENTI RE RISK AS TO THE QUAL ITY AND
PERFORMANC E OF THE PROGRA M IS WITH YOU. SHOULD T HE PROGRAM PROVE D EFECTIVE,
YOU ASSUME THE COST O F ALL NECESSARY SERV ICING, REPAIR OR CO RRECTION .
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COPYRIGHT HOL DER, OR ANY OTHER PART Y WHO MAY MODIFY AN D/OR REDISTRI BUTE
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Appendix: How to A pply These Terms to Your New Pro grams
If you develop a new prog ram, and you want i t to be of the greatest p ossible use to the publ ic, the best way to
achieve this is to make i t free softwar e which everyone c an redistribu te and change under t hese terms.
To do so, attach the follow ing notices to the prog ram. It is safest to a ttach them to the s tart of each sou rce le
to most effecti vely convey the exclusio n of warranty ; and each le should have a t least the “copyri ght” line and a
pointer to where t he full notice is found.
<one line to give the pr ogram’s name and a br ief idea of what it does .>
Copyright (C) 19yy <n ame of author>
This program is f ree software ; you can redistr ibute it and/or modif y it under the ter ms of the GNU Gener al
Public License as p ublished by the Free S oftware Found ation; either ver sion 2 of the License , or (at your option)
any later version .
This program is d istributed in t he hope that it will be u seful, but WITHO UT ANY WARRANT Y; without even
the implied war ranty of MERCHA NTABILITY or FIT NESS FOR A PARTICUL AR PURPOSE. Se e the GNU
General Publ ic License for more det ails.
You should have received a copy of t he GNU Genera l Public License along w ith this progra m; if not, write to th e
Free Softwa re Foundation, In c., 675 Mass Ave, Camb ridge, MA 02139, USA.
Also add informat ion on how to contact you by e lectronic and pa per mail.