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FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
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CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
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LIBRARY (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING
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RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A
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FAILURE OF THE LIBRARY TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF
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SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
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DAMAGES.
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
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If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest
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possible use to the public, we recommend making it free software that
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||
everyone can redistribute and change. You can do so by permitting
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redistribution under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of the
|
||
ordinary General Public License).
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|
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To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library. 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 library's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
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||
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
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|
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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
|
||
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
|
||
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
|
||
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
|
||
|
||
This library 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
|
||
Lesser General Public License for more details.
|
||
|
||
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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||
License along with this library; 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.
|
||
|
||
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
|
||
school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library, if
|
||
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
|
||
|
||
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
|
||
library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James Random Hacker.
|
||
|
||
<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
|
||
Ty Coon, President of Vice
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||
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That's all there is to it! |