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  1. This License Agreement applies to any program or other work which
     contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be
     distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The
     ``Program'', below, refers to any such program or work, and a ``work
     based on the Program'' means either the Program or any work containing
     the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications.
     Each licensee is addressed as ``you''.
  2. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source
     code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously
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     and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to
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     give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public
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  3. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of
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     Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:
        o cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that
          you changed the files and the date of any change; and
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          in whole or in part contains the Program or any part thereof,
          either with or without modifications, to be licensed at no charge
          to all third parties under the terms of this General Public
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          to some or all third parties, at your option).
        o If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
          when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
          interactive use in the simplest and most usual way, to print or
          display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice
          and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you
          provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program
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          of this General Public License.
        o You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy,
          and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange
          for a fee.
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          does not bring the other work under the scope of these terms.
  4. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a portion or derivative of
     it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the
     terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the
     following:
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        o accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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          of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
        o accompany it with the information you received as to where the
          corresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is
          allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
          received the program in object code or executable form alone.)
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          contains; but, as a special exception, it need not include source
          code for modules which are standard libraries that accompany the
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     of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions
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     detail to address new problems or concerns. Each version is given a
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     you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of
     that version or of any later version published by the Free Software
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  9. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
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     Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we
     sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the
     two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free
     software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
 10. NO WARRANTY

        o BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE 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.
        o IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
          WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY
          MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE 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.