Nodus 8.1
Center for
Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
Université catholique de Louvain
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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:
{project} Copyright (C) {year} {fullname}
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>.