Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no
warranty for this free software . If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients
to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the
original authors' reputations .
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents . We wish to avoid the danger that redis-
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tributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary . To
prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all .
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow .
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
1 . This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder
saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License . The „Program", below, refers to any
such program or work, and a „work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work
under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with
modifications and/or translated into another language . (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation
in the term „modification" .) Each licensee is addressed as „you" .
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside
its scope . The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only
if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the
Program) . Whether that is true depends on what the Program does .
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