application of that system ; it is up to the author/donor to
decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through
any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.
This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is
believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License.
8.
If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted
in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted
interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the
Program under this License may add an explicit geographical
distribution limitation excluding those countries,so that
distribution is permitted only in or among countries not
thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the
limitation as if written in the body of this License.
9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/
or new versions of the General Public License from time
to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to
the present version, but may differ in detail to address
new problems or concerns. Each version is given a
distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies
a version number of this License which applies to it and
“any later version”, you have the option of following the
terms and conditions either of that version or of any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation. If
the Program does not specify a version number of this
License, you may choose any version ever published by
the Free Software Foundation.
10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other
free programs whose distribution conditions are different,
write to the author to ask for permission. For software
which is copyrighted by the 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.
NO WARRANTY
11. 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 “ASIS”
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 PROGRAMPROVE DEFECTIVE,
YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
12. 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
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.
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
convey 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 an idea of
what it does.
Copyright (C)yyyy 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
2 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, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc.,51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic
and paper mail. If the program is interactive, make it output a
short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode :
Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year name of author
Gnomovision 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, the commands you use may be called something
other than ‘show w’ and ‘show c’ ; they could even be
mouse-clicks or menu items-- whatever suits your program.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a
programmer)or your school, if any, to sign a “copyright
disclaimer” for the program,if necessary. Here is a sample ;
alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc.,hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
program ‘Gnomovision’ (which makes passes at compilers)
written by James Hacker. signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice This 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
Lwihcaetn ysoeu want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public instead of this License.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 29 June 2007
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://
fsf. org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
