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| 567 | repair or correction.} |
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| 569 | \item |
| 570 | {\sc In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing |
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| 572 | redistribute the Library as permitted above, be liable to you for damages, |
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| 579 | |
| 580 | \end{enumerate} |
| 581 | |
| 582 | |
| 583 | \begin{center} |
| 584 | {\Large\sc End of Terms and Conditions} |
| 585 | \end{center} |
| 586 | |
| 587 | |
| 588 | \pagebreak[2] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | \section*{Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Libraries} |
| 591 | |
| 592 | If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest possible |
| 593 | use to the public, we recommend making it free software that everyone can |
| 594 | redistribute and change. You can do so by permitting redistribution under |
| 595 | these terms (or, alternatively, under the terms of the ordinary General |
| 596 | Public License). |
| 597 | |
| 598 | To apply these terms, attach the following notices to the library. It is |
| 599 | safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively |
| 600 | convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the |
| 601 | ``copyright'' line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. |
| 602 | |
| 603 | \begin{verbatim} |
| 604 | <one line to give the library's name and a brief idea of what it does.> |
| 605 | Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> |
| 606 | |
| 607 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
| 608 | modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public |
| 609 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either |
| 610 | version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
| 611 | |
| 612 | This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| 613 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| 614 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
| 615 | Lesser General Public License for more details. |
| 616 | |
| 617 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License |
| 618 | along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, |
| 619 | Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA +02110-1301, USA. |
| 620 | \end{verbatim} |
| 621 | |
| 622 | Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. |
| 623 | |
| 624 | You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your |
| 625 | school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the library, if |
| 626 | necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: |
| 627 | |
| 628 | \begin{verbatim} |
| 629 | Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the |
| 630 | library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James |
| 631 | Random Hacker. |
| 632 | |
| 633 | <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990 |
| 634 | Ty Coon, President of Vice |
| 635 | \end{verbatim} |
| 636 | |
| 637 | That's all there is to it! |
| 638 | |
| 639 | \gplend |