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<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d5e11802"></a>2. Terms and conditions for copying,
distribution and modification
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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa14"></a>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 “<span class="quote">Program</span>”, below, refers to any such
program or work, and a “<span class="quote">work based on the Program</span>” 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 “<span class="quote">modification</span>”.) Each licensee is addressed as
“<span class="quote">you</span>”.
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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa15"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa16"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa17"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa18"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa19"></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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa20"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa21"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa22"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa23"></a>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.
</p>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa24"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa25"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa26"></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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa27"></a>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,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa28"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa29"></a>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.
</p>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa30"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa31"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa32"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa33"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa34"></a>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.
</p>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa35"></a>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.
</p>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa36"></a>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.
</p>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa37"></a>This section is intended to make
thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence of the rest of
this License.
</p>
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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa38"></a>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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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa39"></a>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.
</p>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa40"></a>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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</li>
<li>
<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa41"></a>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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<h3><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-bh1"></a>NO WARRANTY
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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa42"></a>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
“<span class="quote">AS IS</span>” 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.
</p>
</li>
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<p><a name="BId-gpl-appendix-pa43"></a>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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