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End User License Agreements for Operating System
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for permission. For software which is copyrighted by
the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Soft-
ware 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
15. BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF
CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE LI-
BRARY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
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ING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PAR-
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NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE
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PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
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BLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY
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AGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCI-
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries
If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of
the greatest possible use to the public, we recommend
making it free software that everyone can redistribute
and change. You can do so by permitting redistribution
under these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of
the ordinary General Public License).
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 fi le should have at least the "copy-
right" 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.>
Copyright© <year> <name of author>
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 Soft-
ware 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 License along with this library; if not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Fran-
klin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Also add information on how to contact you by elec-
tronic and paper mail.
You should also get your employer (if you work as a
programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copy-
right disclaimer" for the library, if necessary. Here is a
sample; alter the names:
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright inter-
est 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
That's all there is to it!
