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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Mon Dec 24 05:03:17 2007 UTC (16 years, 9 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
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5 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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604 16. Limitation of Liability.
605
606 IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
607 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS
608 THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
609 GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
610 USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
611 DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
612 PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
613 EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
614 SUCH DAMAGES.
615
616 17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
617
618 If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
619 above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
620 reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates
621 an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
622 Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
623 copy of the Program in return for a fee.
624
625 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
626
627 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
628
629 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
630 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
631 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
632
633 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
634 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
635 state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
636 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
637
638 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
639 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
640
641 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
642 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
643 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
644 (at your option) any later version.
645
646 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
647 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
648 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
649 GNU General Public License for more details.
650
651 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
652 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
653
654 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
655
656 If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
657 notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
658
659 <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
660 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
661 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
662 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
663
664 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
665 parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands
666 might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
667
668 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
669 if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
670 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
671 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
672
673 The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
674 into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
675 may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
676 the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
677 Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
678 <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
679