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The GNU General Public License, Version 3, 29 June 2007 (GPLv3)
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> Copyright © 2007
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> Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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in the relevant source files, a statement of the additional terms that apply to
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those files, or a notice indicating where to find the applicable terms.
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Additional terms, permissive or non-permissive, may be stated in the form of a
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separately written license, or stated as exceptions; the above requirements
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apply either way.
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### 8. Termination.
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You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided
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under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify it is void, and
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will automatically terminate your rights under this License (including any
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patent licenses granted under the third paragraph of section 11).
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However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a
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particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until
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the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b)
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permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by
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some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.
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Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated
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permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some
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reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation
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of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the
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violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.
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Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the licenses of
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parties who have received copies or rights from you under this License. If your
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rights have been terminated and not permanently reinstated, you do not qualify
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to receive new licenses for the same material under section 10.
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### 9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
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You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of
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the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a
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consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does
|
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not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you
|
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permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe
|
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copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or
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propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do
|
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so.
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### 10. Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients.
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Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a
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license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work,
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subject to this License. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by
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third parties with this License.
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An "entity transaction" is a transaction transferring control of an
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organization, or substantially all assets of one, or subdividing an
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organization, or merging organizations. If propagation of a covered work results
|
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from an entity transaction, each party to that transaction who receives a copy
|
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of the work also receives whatever licenses to the work the party's predecessor
|
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in interest had or could give under the previous paragraph, plus a right to
|
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possession of the Corresponding Source of the work from the predecessor in
|
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interest, if the predecessor has it or can get it with reasonable efforts.
|
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|
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You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights
|
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granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a
|
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license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this
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License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or
|
||
|
counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by
|
||
|
making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any
|
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portion of it.
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### 11. Patents.
|
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A "contributor" is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this License of
|
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the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The work thus licensed is
|
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called the contributor's "contributor version".
|
||
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|
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A contributor's "essential patent claims" are all patent claims owned or
|
||
|
controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired or hereafter acquired,
|
||
|
that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by this License, of making,
|
||
|
using, or selling its contributor version, but do not include claims that would
|
||
|
be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the contributor
|
||
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version. For purposes of this definition, "control" includes the right to grant
|
||
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patent sublicenses in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License.
|
||
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|
||
|
Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent
|
||
|
license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell,
|
||
|
offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of
|
||
|
its contributor version.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In the following three paragraphs, a "patent license" is any express agreement
|
||
|
or commitment, however denominated, not to enforce a patent (such as an express
|
||
|
permission to practice a patent or covenant not to sue for patent infringement).
|
||
|
To "grant" such a patent license to a party means to make such an agreement or
|
||
|
commitment not to enforce a patent against the party.
|
||
|
|
||
|
If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, and the
|
||
|
Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to copy, free of
|
||
|
charge and under the terms of this License, through a publicly available network
|
||
|
server or other readily accessible means, then you must either (1) cause the
|
||
|
Corresponding Source to be so available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of
|
||
|
the benefit of the patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a
|
||
|
manner consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent
|
||
|
license to downstream recipients. "Knowingly relying" means you have actual
|
||
|
knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the covered work in a
|
||
|
country, or your recipient's use of the covered work in a country, would
|
||
|
infringe one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason
|
||
|
to believe are valid.
|
||
|
|
||
|
If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or arrangement, you
|
||
|
convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a covered work, and grant a
|
||
|
patent license to some of the parties receiving the covered work authorizing
|
||
|
them to use, propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of the covered work,
|
||
|
then the patent license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of
|
||
|
the covered work and works based on it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A patent license is "discriminatory" if it does not include within the scope of
|
||
|
its coverage, prohibits the exercise of, or is conditioned on the non- exercise
|
||
|
of one or more of the rights that are specifically granted under this License.
|
||
|
You may not convey a covered work if you are a party to an arrangement with a
|
||
|
third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you
|
||
|
make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of
|
||
|
conveying the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the
|
||
|
parties who would receive the covered work from you, a discriminatory patent
|
||
|
license (a) in connection with copies of the covered work conveyed by you (or
|
||
|
copies made from those copies), or (b) primarily for and in connection with
|
||
|
specific products or compilations that contain the covered work, unless you
|
||
|
entered into that arrangement, or that patent license was granted, prior to 28
|
||
|
March 2007.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Nothing in this License shall be construed as excluding or limiting any implied
|
||
|
license or other defenses to infringement that may otherwise be available to you
|
||
|
under applicable patent law.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
### 12. No Surrender of Others' Freedom.
|
||
|
|
||
|
If 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 convey a covered work so
|
||
|
as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other
|
||
|
pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not convey it at all. For
|
||
|
example, if you agree to terms that obligate you to collect a royalty for
|
||
|
further conveying from those to whom you convey the Program, the only way you
|
||
|
could satisfy both those terms and this License would be to refrain entirely
|
||
|
from conveying the Program.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
### 13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link
|
||
|
or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU
|
||
|
Affero General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the
|
||
|
resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part
|
||
|
which is the covered work, but the special requirements of the GNU Affero
|
||
|
General Public License, section 13, concerning interaction through a network
|
||
|
will apply to the combination as such.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
### 14. Revised Versions of this License.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU
|
||
|
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.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies
|
||
|
that a certain numbered version of the GNU General Public License "or any later
|
||
|
version" applies to it, you have the option of following the terms and
|
||
|
conditions either of that numbered version or of any later version published by
|
||
|
the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number
|
||
|
of the GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published by
|
||
|
the Free Software Foundation.
|
||
|
|
||
|
If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of the
|
||
|
GNU General Public License can be used, that proxy's public statement of
|
||
|
acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for
|
||
|
the Program.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Later license versions may give you additional or different permissions.
|
||
|
However, no additional obligations are imposed on any author or copyright holder
|
||
|
as a result of your choosing to follow a later version.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
### 15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
|
||
|
|
||
|
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 "AS IS" 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.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
### 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>>.
|