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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Mon Dec 24 05:03:17 2007 UTC (16 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: post_fixaltar, post_fixaltar2, rel-2_82, rel-2_81, rel-2_80, pre_coinconvert, rel-3_0, rel-2_6, rel-2_7, rel-2_4, rel-2_5, rel-2_72, rel-2_73, rel-2_71, rel-2_76, rel-2_77, rel-2_74, rel-2_75, rel-2_54, rel-2_55, rel-2_56, rel-2_79, rel-2_53, pre_fixconverter, post_coinconvert, pre_fixaltar2, rel-2_90, rel-2_92, rel-2_93, rel-2_78, post_fixconverter, pre_fixaltar, rel-2_61, rel-2_43, rel-2_42, rel-2_41, HEAD
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make license more explicit

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1 Take note of the GNU Affero License (COPYING.GNU), which applies to part
2 of this release, which means you have to follow the requirements laid out
3 in section 13. of both licenses.
4
5 GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
6 Version 3, 19 November 2007
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8 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
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606 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS
607 THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
608 GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
609 USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
610 DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
611 PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
612 EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
613 SUCH DAMAGES.
614
615 17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
616
617 If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
618 above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
619 reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates
620 an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
621 Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
622 copy of the Program in return for a fee.
623
624 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
625
626 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
627
628 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
629 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
630 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
631
632 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
633 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
634 state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
635 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
636
637 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
638 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
639
640 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
641 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
642 published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
643 License, or (at your option) any later version.
644
645 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
646 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
647 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
648 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
649
650 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
651 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
652
653 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
654
655 If your software can interact with users remotely through a computer
656 network, you should also make sure that it provides a way for users to
657 get its source. For example, if your program is a web application, its
658 interface could display a "Source" link that leads users to an archive
659 of the code. There are many ways you could offer source, and different
660 solutions will be better for different programs; see section 13 for the
661 specific requirements.
662
663 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
664 if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
665 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU AGPL, see
666 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.