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