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ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
16. Limitation of Liability.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW
OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY
COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS
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.
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
<http://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
<http://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
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.