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Revision: 1.8
Committed: Sat Nov 7 14:00:25 2009 UTC (14 years, 5 months ago) by root
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CVS Tags: rel-3_1, rel-3_0, rel-2_90, rel-2_92, rel-2_93, HEAD
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1 Take note of the GNU Affero General Public License (COPYING.Affero),
2 which applies to part of this release, which means you have to follow the
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5 Note that ALL changes introduced by the Deliantra team are under the
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12 (No) thanks to Andrew Madloch who repeatedly tried to lock up the
13 deliantra server sources.
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617 WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS
618 THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
619 GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
620 USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF
621 DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
622 PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
623 EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
624 SUCH DAMAGES.
625
626 17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
627
628 If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
629 above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
630 reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates
631 an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
632 Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
633 copy of the Program in return for a fee.
634
635 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
636
637 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
638
639 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
640 possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
641 free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
642
643 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
644 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
645 state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
646 the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
647
648 <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
649 Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
650
651 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
652 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
653 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
654 (at your option) any later version.
655
656 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
657 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
658 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
659 GNU General Public License for more details.
660
661 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
662 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
663
664 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
665
666 If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
667 notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
668
669 <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
670 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
671 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
672 under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
673
674 The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
675 parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands
676 might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
677
678 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
679 if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
680 For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
681 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
682
683 The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
684 into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you
685 may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
686 the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
687 Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
688 <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
689