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748 OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA
749 OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD
750 PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
751 EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
754 <bridgehead xml:id="InterpretationSecs1516" renderas="sect1">
755 17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
758 If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided above
759 cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms, reviewing
760 courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates an absolute
761 waiver of all civil liability in connection with the Program, unless a
762 warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a copy of the Program in
766 END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
768 <bridgehead xml:id="HowToApply" renderas="sect1">
769 How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
772 If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible
773 use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software
774 which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
777 To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to
778 attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively state the
779 exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
780 “copyright” line and a pointer to where the full notice is
784 <replaceable>one line to give the program’s name and a brief idea of what it does.</replaceable>
785 Copyright (C) <replaceable>year</replaceable> <replaceable>name of author</replaceable>
787 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
788 it under the terms of the <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License as published by
789 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
790 (at your option) any later version.
792 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
793 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
794 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
795 <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License for more details.
797 You should have received a copy of the <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License
798 along with this program. If not, see <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</link>.
801 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
804 If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like
805 this when it starts in an interactive mode:
808 <replaceable>program</replaceable> Copyright (C) <replaceable>year</replaceable> <replaceable>name of author</replaceable>
809 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type ‘<literal>show w</literal>’.
810 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
811 under certain conditions; type ‘<literal>show c</literal>’ for details.
814 The hypothetical commands ‘<literal>show w</literal>’ and
815 ‘<literal>show c</literal>’ should show the appropriate parts of
816 the General Public License. Of course, your program’s commands might be
817 different; for a GUI interface, you would use an “about box”.
820 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
821 if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if
822 necessary. For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the
823 <acronym>GNU</acronym> <acronym>GPL</acronym>, see
824 <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</link>.
827 The <acronym>GNU</acronym> General Public License does not permit
828 incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a
829 subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking
830 proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do,
831 use the <acronym>GNU</acronym> Lesser General Public License instead of this
832 License. But first, please read <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html</link>.
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