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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.
17. Interpretation of Sections 15
and 16.
If the disclaimer of warranty
and limitation of liability provided
above cannot be given
local legal effect according to their terms,
reviewing courts shall apply
local law that most closely approximates
an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
Program, unless a warranty
or assumption of liability accompanies a
copy of the Program in return
for a fee.
END OF TERMS
AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program,
and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the
public, the best way to achieve
this is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute
and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
state the exclusion of warranty
; and each file should have at least
the
"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
<one
line to give the program
's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it
and/
or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either
version 3 of the License,
or
(at your
option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General
Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General
Public License
along with
this program.
If not, see <
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Also
add information on how to contact you by electronic
and paper mail.
If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a
short
notice like
this when it starts in an interactive mode:
<program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
; for details type `show w'.
This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions
; type `show c' for details.
The hypothetical commands `show w
' and `show c' should show the appropriate
parts of the General
Public License. Of course, your program
's commands
might be different
; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
You should also get your employer (
if you work as a programmer)
or school,
if any, to
sign a
"copyright disclaimer" for the program,
if necessary.
For more information on
this,
and how to apply
and follow the GNU GPL, see
<
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
The GNU General
Public License does not permit incorporating your program
into proprietary programs.
If your program is a subroutine library, you
may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
the library.
If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of
this License. But first, please read
<
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
