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                        GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                          Version 3, 29 June 2007
 
Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
 
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                           TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 
0. Definitions.
---------------
 
    “This License” refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
 
    “Copyright” also means copyright-like laws that  apply  to  other  kinds  of
works, such as semiconductor masks.
 
    “The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this  License.
Each licensee is  addressed  as  “you”.  “Licensees”  and  “recipients”  may  be
individuals or organizations.
 
    To “modify” a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in  a
fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an exact  copy.
The resulting work is called a “modified version” of the earlier work or a  work
“based on” the earlier work.
 
    A “covered work” means either the unmodified Program or a work based on  the
Program.
 
    To “propagate” a work means to do anything with it that, without permission,
would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under  applicable
copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying  a  private  copy.
Propagation includes  copying,  distribution  (with  or  without  modification),
making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.
 
    To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other  parties
to make or receive copies. Mere interaction  with  a  user  through  a  computer
network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
 
    An interactive user interface displays  “Appropriate Legal Notices”  to  the
extent that it includes a convenient and prominently visible  feature  that  (1)
displays an appropriate copyright notice, and (2) tells the user that  there  is
no warranty for the work (except to the extent that warranties are provided),
that licensees may convey the work under this License, and how to view a copy of
this License. If the interface presents a list of user commands or options, such
as a menu, a prominent item in the list meets this criterion.
 
 
1. Source Code.
---------------
 
    The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
modifications to it. “Object code” means any non-source form of a work.
 
    A “Standard Interface”  means  an  interface  that  either  is  an  official
standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case  of  interfaces
specified for a particular programming language, one that is widely  used  among
developers working in that language.
 
    The “System Libraries” of an executable work include  anything,  other  than
the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the  normal  form  of  packaging  a
Major Component, but which is not part of that Major Component, and  (b)  serves
only to enable use of the work with that Major  Component,  or  to  implement  a
Standard Interface for which an implementation is available  to  the  public  in
source code form. A “Major Component”, in this context, means a major  essential
component (kernel, window system, and so on) of the  specific  operating  system
(if any) on which the executable work runs, or a compiler used  to  produce  the
work, or an object code interpreter used to run it.
 
    The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object  code  form  means  all  the
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object code  and  to  modify  the  work,  including  scripts  to  control  those
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general-purpose tools or  generally  available  free  programs  which  are  used
unmodified in performing those activities but which are not part  of  the  work.
For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated
with source files for the work, and the source code  for  shared  libraries  and
dynamically linked  subprograms  that  the  work  is  specifically  designed  to
require, such as by intimate data communication or control  flow  between  those
subprograms and other parts of the work.
 
    The Corresponding Source need not include anything that users can regenerate
automatically from other parts of the Corresponding Source.
 
    The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that same work.
 
2. Basic Permissions.
---------------------
 
    All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of  copyright
on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This
License explicitly affirms your  unlimited  permission  to  run  the  unmodified
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if the output, given its content,  constitutes  a  covered  work.  This  License
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    You may make, run and propagate  covered  works  that  you  do  not  convey,
without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force.  You  may
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conveying all material for which you do not control copyright. Those thus making
or running the covered works for you must do  so  exclusively  on  your  behalf,
under your direction and control, on terms that prohibit them  from  making  any
copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you.
 
    Conveying under any  other  circumstances  is  permitted  solely  under  the
conditions stated below. Sublicensing  is  not  allowed;  section  10  makes  it
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3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.
--------------------------------------------------------------
 
    No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective  technological  measure
under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article  11  of  the  WIPO
copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or  similar  laws  prohibiting  or
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effected by exercising rights under this License with  respect  to  the  covered
work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification  of  the
work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or  third  parties'
legal rights to forbid circumvention of technological measures.
 
 
4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.
-----------------------------
 
    You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as  you  receive
it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish  on
each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating  that
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to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any  warranty;  and  give
all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.
 
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5. Conveying Modified Source Versions.
--------------------------------------
 
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it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms  of  section  4,
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6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.
------------------------------
 
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    b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product  (including
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    A “User Product”  is  either  (1)  a  “consumer product”,  which  means  any
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    If you convey an object code  work  under  this  section  in,  or  with,  or
specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying occurs as part  of  a
transaction in which the right of possession and use  of  the  User  Product  is
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this section must be accompanied  by  the  Installation  Information.  But  this
requirement does not apply if neither  you  nor  any  third  party  retains  the
ability to install modified object code on the User Product  (for  example,  the
work has been installed in ROM).
 
    The requirement to provide  Installation  Information  does  not  include  a
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Product in which it has been modified or installed. Access to a network  may  be
denied when  the  modification  itself  materially  and  adversely  affects  the
operation of the network or violates the rules and protocols  for  communication
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    Corresponding Source conveyed, and  Installation  Information  provided,  in
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with an implementation available to the public in source code  form),  and  must
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7. Additional Terms.
--------------------
 
    “Additional permissions” are terms that supplement the terms of this License
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that are applicable to the entire Program shall be treated as though  they  were
included in this License, to the extent that they  are  valid  under  applicable
law. If additional permissions apply only to part of the Program, that part  may
be used separately under those  permissions,  but  the  entire  Program  remains
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a separately written license, or stated as exceptions;  the  above  requirements
apply either way.
 
8. Termination.
---------------
 
    You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly  provided
under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify it is void, and
will automatically terminate your  rights  under  this  License  (including  any
patent licenses granted under the third paragraph of section 11).
 
    However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license  from
a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and  until
the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates  your  license,  and  (b)
permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you  of  the  violation  by
some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.
 
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reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice  of  violation
of this License (for any work) from that copyright  holder,  and  you  cure  the
violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.
 
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licenses of parties who have received copies  or  rights  from  you  under  this
License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently reinstated, you
do not qualify to receive new licenses for the same material under section 10.
 
9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
---------------------------------------------
 
    You are not required to accept this License in order to  receive  or  run  a
copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as
a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does
not require acceptance. However, nothing other  than  this  License  grants  you
permission to propagate or modify  any  covered  work.  These  actions  infringe
copyright if you  do  not  accept  this  License.  Therefore,  by  modifying  or
propagating a covered work, you indicate your  acceptance  of  this  License  to
do so.
 
10. Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients.
-------------------------------------------------
 
    Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives  a
license from the original licensors, to run, modify  and  propagate  that  work,
subject to this License. You are not responsible  for  enforcing  compliance  by
third parties with this License.
 
    An  “entity  transaction”  is  a  transaction  transferring  control  of  an
organization,  or  substantially  all   assets   of  one,  or   subdividing   an
organization, or merging organizations. If propagation of a covered work results
from an entity transaction, each party to that transaction who receives  a  copy
of the work also receives whatever licenses to the work the party's  predecessor
in interest had or could give under the  previous  paragraph,  plus a  right  to
possession of the Corresponding Source of  the  work  from  the  predecessor  in
interest, if the predecessor has it or can get it with reasonable efforts.
 
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granted or affirmed under this  License.  For  example,  you  may  not  impose a
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License,  and  you  may  not  initiate  litigation  (including a  cross-claim or
counterclaim in a  lawsuit)  alleging  that  any  patent  claim is infringed  by
making, using,  selling,  offering for  sale, or  importing the  Program or  any
portion of it.
 
11. Patents.
------------
 
    A “contributor” is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this  License
of the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The work  thus  licensed
is called the contributor's “contributor version”.
 
    A contributor's “essential patent claims” are all  patent  claims  owned  or
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that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by this  License,  of  making,
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country, or your recipient's use  of  the  covered  work  in  a  country,  would
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28 March 2007.
 
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12. No Surrender of Others' Freedom.
------------------------------------
 
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13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License.
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“or any later version” applies to it, you have the option of following the terms
and conditions either of that numbered version or of any later version published
by the Free Software Foundation. If the  Program  does  not  specify  a  version
number of the GNU General Public  License,  you  may  choose  any  version  ever
published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
    If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide  which  future  versions of
the GNU General Public License can be used,  that  proxy's  public  statement of
acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to  choose  that version  for
the Program.
 
    Later license versions may give you  additional  or  different  permissions.
However, no additional obligations are imposed on any author or copyright holder
as a result of your choosing to follow a later version.
 
15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
---------------------------
 
    THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY  APPLICABLE
LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR  OTHER
PARTIES PROVIDE THE  PROGRAM  “AS IS”  WITHOUT  WARRANTY  OF  ANY  KIND,  EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE  IMPLIED  WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO  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.
 
16. Limitation of Liability.
----------------------------
 
    IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN  WRITING  WILL
ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM
AS PERMITTED ABOVE,  BE  LIABLE  TO  YOU FOR  DAMAGES,  INCLUDING  ANY  GENERAL,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY
TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS  OF  DATA  OR  DATA  BEING
RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE  OF
THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH  HOLDER  OR  OTHER
PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
 
17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
-----------------------------------------
 
    If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation  of  liability  provided  above
cannot be given local legal effect according to their  terms,  reviewing  courts
shall apply local law that most closely approximates an absolute waiver  of  all
civil liability in connection with the Program, unless a warranty or  assumption
of liability accompanies a copy of the Program in return for a fee.
 
                      END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
 
 
               How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
 
    If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible
use to the public, the best way to achieve this is  to  make  it  free  software
which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
 
    To do so, attach the following notices to  the  program.  It  is  safest  to
attach them to the start of each source  file  to  most  effectively  state  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 program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
  Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
 
  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.
 
  This program 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 General Public License for more details.
 
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 
 
    If the program does terminal interaction, make  it  output  a  short  notice
like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
 
  <program>  Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
 
 
    The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the  appropriate
parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands might be
different; for a GUI interface, you would use an “about box”.
 
    You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer)  or  school,
if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if necessary. For more
information  on  this,  and  how  to  apply  and  follow  the   GNU   GPL,   see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
    The GNU General Public License does not permit  incorporating  your  program
into proprietary programs. If your program is  a  subroutine  library,  you  may
consider it more useful to permit  linking  proprietary  applications  with  the
library. If this is what you want to do,  use  the  GNU  Lesser  General  Public
License  instead of this License. But first, please read
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.

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