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placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms
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of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such
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“<span class="quote">work based on the Program
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the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a
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work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with
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modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation
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is included without limitation in the term
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“<span class="quote">modification
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</span>”.) Each licensee is addressed as “<span class="quote">you</span>”.
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</p><p> Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by
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this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not
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restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents
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constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running
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the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sect1"></a>Section 1</h3></div></div></div><p> You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you
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receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately
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publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty;
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keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any
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warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
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along with the Program.
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</p><p> You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at
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your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sect2"></a>Section 2</h3></div></div></div><p> You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus
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forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications
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or work under the terms of
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<a href="apbs02.html#sect1" title="Section 1">Section 1</a> above, provided
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that you also meet all of these conditions:
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</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p> You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that
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you changed the files and the date of any change.
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</p></li><li><p> You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or
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in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be
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licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of
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</p></li><li><p> If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you
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must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most
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ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate
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copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying
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that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program
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under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
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</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Exception:
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</h3><p> If the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an
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announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print an
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</p></li></ol></div><p>
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</p><p> These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections
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of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered
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independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms,
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do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when
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you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the
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Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose
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permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and
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every part regardless of who wrote it.
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</p><p> Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights
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to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control
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the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program.
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</p><p> In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program
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(or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium
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does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2757836"></a>Section 3
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</h3></div></div></div><p> You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under
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<a href="apbs02.html#sect2" title="Section 2">Section 2</a> in object code or executable form under the terms of
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<a href="apbs02.html#sect1" title="Section 1">Sections 1</a> and
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<a href="apbs02.html#sect2" title="Section 2">2</a> above provided that you also do one of the following:
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</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p> Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which
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must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
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customarily used for software interchange; or,
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</p></li><li><p> Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any
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third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source
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distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code,
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to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily
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used for software interchange; or,
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</p></li><li><p> Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute
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corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial
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distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form
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with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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</p></li></ol></div><p>
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</p><p> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications
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to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules
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it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control
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compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source
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code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
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binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system
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on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
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</p><p> If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a
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designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place
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counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to
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copy the source along with the object code.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2757936"></a>Section 4
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</h3></div></div></div><p> You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided
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under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the
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Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
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parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their
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licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2757954"></a>Section 5
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</h3></div></div></div><p> You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing
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else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works.
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These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying
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or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance
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of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or
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modifying the Program or works based on it.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2757972"></a>Section 6
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</h3></div></div></div><p> Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient
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automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify
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the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions
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on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing
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compliance by third parties to this License.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2757990"></a>Section 7
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</h3></div></div></div><p> If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other
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reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order,
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agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you
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from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously
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your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence
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you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit
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royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or
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indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be
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to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
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</p><p> If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance,
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the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply
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in other circumstances.
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</p><p> It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property
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right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of
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protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, which is implemented by public
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license practices. Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software
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distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up
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to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other
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system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.
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</p><p> This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a consequence of the
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rest of this License.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2758040"></a>Section 8
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</h3></div></div></div><p> If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents
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or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License
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may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that
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distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License
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incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2758058"></a>Section 9
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</h3></div></div></div><p> The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License
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from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ
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in detail to address new problems or concerns.
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</p><p> Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of
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this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms
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and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software
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Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any
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version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2758091"></a>Section 10
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</h3></div></div></div><p> If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution
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conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted
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by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions
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for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all
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derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2758109"></a>Section 11 NO WARRANTY
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</h3></div></div></div><p> BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT
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PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR
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OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
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INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
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PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
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</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2758130"></a>Section 12
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</h3></div></div></div><p> IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR
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ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU
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FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
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USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
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INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH
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ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
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