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15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
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IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM,
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED
BY
APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN
OTHERWISE STATED
IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS
AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM
"AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY
AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM
IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU
ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
16. Limitation of Liability.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED
BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED
TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES
AND/OR CONVEYS
THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE
TO YOU
FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE
USE OR INABILITY
TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF
DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED
BY YOU OR THIRD
PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM
TO OPERATE
WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS),
EVEN
IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGES.
17.
Interpretation of Sections
15 and 16.
If the disclaimer of warranty
and limitation of liability provided
above cannot be given
local legal effect according
to their terms,
reviewing courts shall
apply local law that most closely approximates
an absolute waiver of all civil liability
in connection
with the
Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
copy of the Program
in return
for a fee.
END OF TERMS
AND CONDITIONS
How
to Apply These Terms
to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program,
and you want it
to be of the greatest
possible
use to the public, the best way
to achieve this
is to make it
free software which everyone can redistribute
and change under these terms.
To do so,
attach the following notices
to the program. It
is safest
to attach them
to the start of each source
file to most effectively
state the exclusion of warranty;
and each
file should
have at least
the
"copyright" line
and a pointer
to where the full notice
is found.
<one line
to give the program's name
and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program
is free software: you can redistribute it
and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by
the Free Software Foundation, either version
3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program
is distributed
in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should
have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along
with this program.
If not, see <
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Also add information on how
to contact you
by electronic
and paper mail.
If the program does terminal interaction, make it
output a short
notice like this when it starts
in an interactive mode:
<program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program comes
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
for details type `
show w'.
This
is free software,
and you are
welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `
show c'
for details.
The hypothetical commands `
show w'
and `
show c' should
show the appropriate
parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands
might be different;
for a GUI interface, you would
use an
"about box".
You should
also get your employer (
if you work as a programmer) or school,
if any,
to sign a
"copyright disclaimer" for the program,
if necessary.
For more information on this,
and how
to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
<
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
into proprietary programs.
If your program
is a subroutine library, you
may consider it more useful
to permit linking proprietary applications
with
the library.
If this
is what you want
to do,
use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
<
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.