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570 15. BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
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580 16. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN
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603 effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should
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604 have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full
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611 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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616 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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621 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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622 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
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623 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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627 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or
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628 your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the library,
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631 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the
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632 library `Frob' (a library for tweaking knobs) written by James
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633 Random Hacker.
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635 <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
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636 Ty Coon, President of Vice
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638 That's all there is to it!
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