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APPENDIX
APPENDIX
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation
of patent infringement or for any other reason (not lim-
ited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you
(whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that
contradict the conditions of this license, they do not
excuse you from the conditions of this license. If you
cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your
obligations under this license and any other pertinent
obligations, then as a consequence you may not distrib-
ute the program at all. For example, if a patent license
would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the pro-
gram by all those who receive copies directly or indi-
rectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy
both it and this license would be to refrain entirely from
distribution of the program.
If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforce-
able under any particular circumstance, the balance of
the section is intended to apply and the section as a
whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.
It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to
infringe any patents or other property right claims or to
contest validity of any such claims; this section has the
sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free soft-
ware distribution system, which is implemented by pub-
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contributions to the wide range of software distributed
through that system in reliance on consistent applica-
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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 restrict-
ed in certain countries either by patents or by copy-
righted 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 ver-
sion 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
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EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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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.
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LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY
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MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM
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OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF
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