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<h3 style="text-align: center;">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Version 3, 29 June 2007</p>
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<p>Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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<<a href="http://fsf.org/">http://fsf.org/</a>></p><p>
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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<h3><a name="preamble"></a>Preamble</h3>
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<p>The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for
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software and other kinds of works.</p>
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<p>The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed
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to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast,
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the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to
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share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free
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software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the
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GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to
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any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to
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your programs, too.</p>
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<p>When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
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free programs, and that you know you can do these things.</p>
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you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.</p>
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<p>Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps:
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giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.</p>
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<p>For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains
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protecting users' freedom to change the software. The systematic
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use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we
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have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those
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products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we
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stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions
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of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.</p>
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<p>Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents.
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States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of
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software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to
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avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could
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make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that
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patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.</p>
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<p>The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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modification follow.</p>
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<h3><a name="terms"></a>TERMS AND CONDITIONS</h3>
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<h4><a name="section0"></a>0. Definitions.</h4>
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<p>“This License” refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.</p>
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<p>“Copyright” also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of
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works, such as semiconductor masks.</p>
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<p>“The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this
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License. Each licensee is addressed as “you”. “Licensees” and
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“recipients” may be individuals or organizations.</p>
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<p>To “modify” a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work
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in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an
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exact copy. The resulting work is called a “modified version” of the
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earlier work or a work “based on” the earlier work.</p>
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<p>A “covered work” means either the unmodified Program or a work based
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on the Program.</p>
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<p>To “propagate” a work means to do anything with it that, without
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permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for
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infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a
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computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying,
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distribution (with or without modification), making available to the
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public, and in some countries other activities as well.</p>
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<p>To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other
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parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through
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a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.</p>
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<p>An interactive user interface displays “Appropriate Legal Notices”
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to the extent that it includes a convenient and prominently visible
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feature that (1) displays an appropriate copyright notice, and (2)
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tells the user that there is no warranty for the work (except to the
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extent that warranties are provided), that licensees may convey the
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work under this License, and how to view a copy of this License. If
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the interface presents a list of user commands or options, such as a
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menu, a prominent item in the list meets this criterion.</p>
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<h4><a name="section1"></a>1. Source Code.</h4>
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<p>The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work
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for making modifications to it. “Object code” means any non-source
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form of a work.</p>
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<p>A “Standard Interface” means an interface that either is an official
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standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case of
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interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that
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is widely used among developers working in that language.</p>
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<p>The “System Libraries” of an executable work include anything, other
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than the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the normal form of
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packaging a Major Component, but which is not part of that Major
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Component, and (b) serves only to enable use of the work with that
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Major Component, or to implement a Standard Interface for which an
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implementation is available to the public in source code form. A
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“Major Component”, in this context, means a major essential component
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(kernel, window system, and so on) of the specific operating system
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(if any) on which the executable work runs, or a compiler used to
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produce the work, or an object code interpreter used to run it.</p>
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<p>The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all
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the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable
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work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to
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control those activities. However, it does not include the work's
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System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free
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programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but
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which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source
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includes interface definition files associated with source files for
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the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically
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linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require,
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such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those
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subprograms and other parts of the work.</p>
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<p>The Corresponding Source need not include anything that users
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can regenerate automatically from other parts of the Corresponding
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Source.</p>
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<p>The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that
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same work.</p>
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<h4><a name="section2"></a>2. Basic Permissions.</h4>
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<p>All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of
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copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated
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conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited
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permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a
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covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its
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content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your
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rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.</p>
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<p>You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not
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convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains
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in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose
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of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you
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with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with
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the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do
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not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works
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for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction
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and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of
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your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you.</p>
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<p>Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under
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the conditions stated below. Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10
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makes it unnecessary.</p>
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<h4><a name="section3"></a>3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.</h4>
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<p>No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological
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measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article
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11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or
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similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such
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measures.</p>
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<p>When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
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circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
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is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to
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the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
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modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
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users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
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technological measures.</p>
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<h4><a name="section4"></a>4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.</h4>
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<p>You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you
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receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
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appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice;
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keep intact all notices stating that this License and any
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non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code;
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keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all
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recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.</p>
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<p>You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey,
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and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.</p>
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<h4><a name="section5"></a>5. Conveying Modified Source Versions.</h4>
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<p>You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to
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produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the
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terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:</p>
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<li>a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified
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it, and giving a relevant date.</li>
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<li>b) The work must carry prominent notices stating that it is
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released under this License and any conditions added under section
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7. This requirement modifies the requirement in section 4 to
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“keep intact all notices”.</li>
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<li>c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this
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License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This
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License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7
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additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts,
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regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no
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permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not
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invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.</li>
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<li>d) If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display
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Appropriate Legal Notices; however, if the Program has interactive
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interfaces that do not display Appropriate Legal Notices, your
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work need not make them do so.</li>
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<p>A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent
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works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work,
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and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program,
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in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an
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“aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not
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used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users
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beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work
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in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other
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parts of the aggregate.</p>
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<h4><a name="section6"></a>6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.</h4>
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<p>You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms
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of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the
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machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License,
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in one of these ways:</p>
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<li>a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
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(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the
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Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium
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customarily used for software interchange.</li>
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<li>b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
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(including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a
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written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as
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long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product
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model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a
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copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the
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product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical
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medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no
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more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this
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conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
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Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.</li>
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<li>c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the
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written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This
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alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and
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only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord
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with subsection 6b.</li>
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<li>d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated
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place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the
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Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no
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further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the
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Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to
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copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source
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may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party)
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that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain
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clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the
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Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the
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Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is
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available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.</li>
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<li>e) Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided
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you inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding
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Source of the work are being offered to the general public at no
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charge under subsection 6d.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>A separable portion of the object code, whose source code is excluded
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from the Corresponding Source as a System Library, need not be
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included in conveying the object code work.</p>
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