ContactsAMI Software License Agreement

Version 0 - January 28, 2018

IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT (“LICENSE”) CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, PURCHASING A LICENSE AND / OR USING CONTACTSAMI.

BY INSTALLING AND / OR USING CONTACTSAMI, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE WITHOUT RESERVATION.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, DO NOT INSTALL AND / OR USE CONTACTSAMI.

IF CONTACTSAMI WAS ACCESSED ELECTRONICALLY AND YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, CLICK “DISAGREE/DECLINE”, CLOSE THE SOFTWARE AND REMOVE IT FROM YOUR COMPUTER.

1. General.

(a) If You accept the terms and conditions in this Software License Agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you warrant that you have full legal authority to accept the terms and conditions in this License on behalf of such company or other legal entity, and to legally bind such company or other legal entity. You may not accept this Software License Agreement if you are not of legal age to form a binding contract.

(b) If you licensed this software under a ContactsAMI Volume License Agreement, then the terms of that agreement will supersede these terms, and these terms do not constitute the granting of an additional license of the Software.

(c) You acknowledge that this License refers and applies to ContactsAMI main application, plugins, helpers, documents and utilities and that every reference to ContactsAMI or the Software in this document applies to every component of ContactsAMI.

(d) YOU WILL NEVER RELY ON, USE OR ATTEMPT TO USE THE SOFTWARE IN AN EMERGENCY AND OR DANGEROUS AND OR CRITICAL SITUATION, NOR WILL USE OR ATTEMPT TO USE THE SOFTWARE IN SITUATIONS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE. By accepting this Software License Agreement, you specifically ed explicitly accept the following sections 3a and 7.

(e) The software and documentation, whether on disk, in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (collectively “ContactsAMI” or the “Software”) are licensed, not sold, to you by CDF1982 by Cesare Forelli (“CDF1982”) for use only under the terms of this License, and CDF1982 reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. The rights granted herein are limited to CDF1982’s and / or Cesare Forelli’s intellectual property rights in ContactsAMI as licensed hereunder and do not include any other patents or intellectual property rights. You own the media on which ContactsAMI is recorded but CDF1982 retains ownership of ContactsAMI itself. The terms of this License will govern any Software upgrades and updates provided by CDF1982 that replace and/or supplement the original ContactsAMI product, unless such upgrade is accompanied by a separate license, in which case the terms of that license will govern.

(f) This Software License Agreement may be modified from time to time. CDF1982 will notify of such modifications on its website or otherwise, e.g. by using the installer of an update. Any modifications to this Software License Agreement shall only apply upon acceptance by you, i.e. by installing an update issued after the modifications.

(g) You install and use the Software at your own risk and the entire risk as to satisfactory quality, performance and accuracy is with you.

(h) In order to be able to install and use the Software and receive upgrades and updates, your computer shall have access to the Internet and shall meet the requirements (software, hardware, peripherals) described in the System Requirements that can be found on the Software website (https://www.cdf1982.com).

(i) CDF1982 may modify the Software at any time at its sole discretion and without notice to you, for example to comply with applicable law or a court order, to avoid a third party infringement claim or to provide upgrades and updates.

(l) If you received a trial version of the Software for your limited evaluation, it is programmed to cease functioning on a certain date, and Section 5 below is modified so that the trial version of the Software is provided “AS IS” and without warranty of any kind. The other terms below apply to both the trial and full versions of the Software.

(m) You may need to pay an additional fee in order to be able to download a future update or upgrade.

(n) By accepting this Software License Agreement, you also accept the Terms and Condition and / or Privacy Policy of a third party, Paddle (Paddle.com Market Ltd and Paddle Payments Ltd), as stated in the following section 8b.

2. License.

(a) TRIAL LICENSE. This License applies, for the duration of the trial, to personal / non commercial use as well as for professional / commercial use of the Software; this License applies until you pay for the Software, then one of the following Personal License or Commercial License will automatically apply according to your legal status. If you are using the trial version of ContactsAMI, this License allows you to install and use ContactsAMI on any computer that you own or control for the sole purpose of evaluating its features, functionality, and applicability to your needs. The trial version of ContactsAMI expires seven (7) days after the date you first launch ContactsAMI.

(b) PERSONAL LICENSE. This License applies to individuals for personal / non commercial use of the Software. This License allows you to install and use ContactsAMI on any computer that you own or control for personal, non-commercial use.

(c) COMMERCIAL LICENSE. This License applies to businesses and institutions for professional / commercial / educational use of the Software. This License allows you to install and use ContactsAMI on n° 1 computer that your business or institution owns or rents for commercial or other use in order for you to assign a ContactsAMI license to a single individual / employee of your business or institution.

(d) Upgrades & Updates. If the Software is licensed as an upgrade or update, then you may only use the Software to replace a validly licensed version of the same software. You agree that the upgrade or update does not constitute the granting of a second license to the Software (i.e., you may not use the upgrade or update in addition to the software it is replacing, nor may you transfer the software which is being replaced to a third party).

3. Restrictions.

(a) Restricted Uses. IN NO CASE THE USER WILL RELY ON, USE OR ATTEMPT TO USE THE SOFTWARE IN AN EMERGENCY AND OR DANGEROUS AND OR CRITICAL SITUATION, NOR WILL USE OR ATTEMPT TO USE THE SOFTWARE IN SITUATIONS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

THE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

(b) Other Limitations. YOU MAY NOT REVERSE ENGINEER, DECOMPILE OR DISASSEMBLE THE SOFTWARE, EXCEPT AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT EXPRESSLY PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. YOU MAY NOT MODIFY, ADAPT, TRANSLATE, RENT, LEASE, LOAN OR CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS BASED UPON THE SOFTWARE OR ANY PART THEREOF.

(c) Transfer Restriction. YOU MAY NOT RENT, LEASE, LEND, REDISTRIBUTE OR SUBLICENSE CONTACTSAMI TO ANOTHER PARTY WITHOUT CDF1982’S PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT.

(d) Open Source Components. Certain components of the Software, and third party open source programs included with the Software, have been or may be made available by CDF1982 on its web site (collectively the “Open-Sourced Components”). You may modify or replace only these Open-Sourced Components; provided that: (i) the resultant modified Software is used in accordance with the permitted uses set forth above; and (ii) you otherwise comply with the terms of this License and any applicable licensing terms governing use of the Open- Sourced Components. CDF1982 is not obligated to provide any maintenance, technical or other support for the resultant modified Software.

4. Termination.

This License is effective until terminated. Your rights under this License will terminate automatically without notice from CDF1982 if you fail to comply with any term(s) of this License. Upon such termination you must destroy the Software, all accompanying written materials and all copies thereof; Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 will survive any termination or cancellation of this License. 5. Export Law Assurances.

You may not use or otherwise export or re-export the Software except as authorized by Italian law and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Software was obtained. In particular, but without limitation, the Software may not be exported or re-exported (a) into any Italian embargoed countries, or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Denied Person’s List or Entity List. By using the Software you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. You also agree that you will not use the Software to do harm and for any purposes prohibited by Italian law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. 6. Warranty.

(a) Inherent Risks. The use of the Software, as with any software product, carries inherent risks that can be mitigated by careful preparation, proper use, and periodical execution of backups and proper test of their integrity. These risks include, but are not limited to, downtime, inability to perform tasks with the device(s), loss of preexisting data and device(s) failure leading to data loss.

(b) Warranty. CDF1982 warrants that, for 30 days after initial installation and proper configuration in a setup that satisfies all the software and hardware requirements stated on the Software website, the Software will perform substantially as stated in its published specifications therefor, provided that CDF1982’s sole liability and your exclusive remedy for any breach of this warranty is that, if reported to CDF1982 during the warranty period, CDF1982 will fix the non-compliance, replace the Software that does not conform with conforming Software or, if neither of the foregoing is reasonably available and/or CDF1982 can’t verify the full compatibility of your setup with the software and hardware requirements and that the required custom configuration has been executed properly by the User, refund the purchase price.

OTHER THAN STATED IN 5(b) ABOVE, CDF1982 AND ITS LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND CONDITIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED (WHETHER COLLATERALLY, BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE), INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING WRITTEN MATERIALS. FURTHERMORE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE SOFTWARE OR AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY PROPRIETARY RIGHTS BY THE SOFTWARE. CDF1982 DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY CDF1982 OR A CDF1982 AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS OR OTHER TERMS THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE TERMS OF THIS DISCLAIMER AND THE LIMITED WARRANTY UNDER THIS SECTION 5 DO NOT AFFECT OR PREJUDICE THE STATUTORY RIGHTS OF A CONSUMER ACQUIRING THE SOFTWARE OTHERWISE THAN IN THE COURSE OF A BUSINESS, NEITHER DO THEY LIMIT OR EXCLUDE ANY LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY CDF1982’S NEGLIGENCE. 7. Exclusion and Limitation of Remedies and Damages.

(a) Exclusion. IN NO EVENT WILL CDF1982 OR CESARE FORELLI OR ANY OF ITS LICENSORS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AFFILIATES OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION AND THE LIKE) OR DIRECT LOSS OF BUSINESS, PROFITS OR REVENUE, WHETHER FORESEEABLE OR UNFORESEEABLE, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE OR ACCOMPANYING WRITTEN MATERIALS, REGARDLESS OF THE BASIS OF THE CLAIM (WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORT OR UNDER STATUTE OR OTHERWISE HOWSOEVER ARISING) AND EVEN IF CDF1982 OR A CDF1982 REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE ABOVE, YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE THAT CDF1982 OR CESARE FORELLI WILL BEAR NO LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS OR EXPENSES CAUSED BY USE OF THE SOFTWARE IN AN EMERGENCY AND OR DANGEROUS AND OR CRITICAL SITUATION AND OR IN ANY SITUATION THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, AS WELL AS IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE SOFTWARE FAILURE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

(b) Limitation. IF CDF1982 BREACHES ANY PROVISION OF THIS LICENSE, ITS SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE MAXIMUM LIABILITY, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL NOT IN ANY EVENT EXCEED THE CONTRACT PRICE FOR THE PARTICULAR SOFTWARE CAUSING THE LOSS. SPECIFICALLY, CDF1982 OR CESARE FORELLI IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO OR LOSS OF DATA OR INFORMATION ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT IS ALLEGED TO BE CAUSED BY CONTACTSAMI, INCLUDING THAT CDF1982 OR CESARE FORELLI IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY ALLEGED ACTS OF NEGLIGENCE. IN NO EVENT SHALL CDF1982 OR CESARE FORELLI OR ITS LICENSORS’ TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE.

8. Consent to Use of Data.

(a) You agree that CDF1982 and Cesare Forelli may collect and use technical and related information, including but not limited to technical information about your computer, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of product support and other services to you (if any) related to ContactsAMI. CDF1982 and Cesare Forelli may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve its products or to provide services or technologies to you.

(b) You also acknowledge and accept that ContactsAMI integrates Paddle, a well-respected and secure third-party service adopted by many popular apps, to manage licensing, process payments and collect anonymous and aggregated usage informations; by installing and using ContactsAMI, you explicitly agree to Paddle.com Market Ltd and Paddle Payments Ltd Terms and Conditions as stated on Paddle website (https://paddle.com).

9. Governing law and disputes.

(a) Choice of Laws. This License shall be governed by, and its terms shall be construed in accordance with, Italian Law. Any disputes shall be resolved by courts in Savona, Italy. The parties agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980), as amended, is specifically excluded from application to this License.

(b) Waiver. No waiver or breach of any term or condition of this License shall operate as a waiver of any other breach of such term or condition, or of any other term or condition, nor shall any failure to enforce any provisions hereunder operate as a waiver of such provision or any other provision hereunder.

(c) Severability. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this License shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, except in those instances where removal or elimination of such invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision or provisions would result in a failure of consideration under this License, such invalidity, illegality or un-enforceability shall not affect any other provision hereof, and this License shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions had never been contained herein.

(d) Headings. Headings used in this License are for the purpose of reference only and are not to be considered in construction or interpretation of this License.

(e) Entire Agreement; Amendment. Unless you have licensed this Software under a ContactsAMI Volume License Agreement, in which case that agreement governs, this License contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof. All prior agreements and all prior negotiations, representations and communications relating to the same subject are superseded by this License. This License may not be modified other than by a written document signed by an authorized representative of each party. Any translation of this License is done for local requirements and in the event of a dispute between the English and any non-English versions, the English version of this License shall govern.

10. Third Party Acknowledgements.

ContactsAMI is distributed with third party software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). You may obtain a complete machine-readable copy of the source code for such third party software, not ContactsAMI, under the terms of the GPL without charge except for the cost of media, shipping, and handling, upon written request to CDF1982. The GPL software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, including the implied warranties of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

A copy of the GPL is included in the following Addendum A.

11. Addendum A

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 3, 29 June 2007

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.

The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program–to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.

For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.

Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.

For the developers’ and authors’ protection, the GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty for this free software. For both users’ and authors’ sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed, so that their problems will not be attributed erroneously to authors of previous versions.

Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users’ freedom to change the software. The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.

Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents. States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.

The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

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e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or
f) Requiring indemnification of licensors and authors of that material by anyone who conveys the material (or modified versions of it) with contractual assumptions of liability to the recipient, for any liability that these contractual assumptions directly impose on those licensors and authors.

All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term. If a license document contains a further restriction but permits relicensing or conveying under this License, you may add to a covered work material governed by the terms of that license document, provided that the further restriction does not survive such relicensing or conveying.

If you add terms to a covered work in accord with this section, you must place, in the relevant source files, a statement of the additional terms that apply to those files, or a notice indicating where to find the applicable terms.

Additional terms, permissive or non-permissive, may be stated in the form of 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.

Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some 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.

Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the 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.

You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this 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 controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired or hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by this License, of making, using, or selling its contributor version, but do not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the contributor version. For purposes of this definition, “control” includes the right to grant patent sublicenses in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License.

Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor’s essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.

In the following three paragraphs, a “patent license” is any express agreement or commitment, however denominated, not to enforce a patent (such as an express permission to practice a patent or covenant not to sue for patent infringement). To “grant” such a patent license to a party means to make such an agreement or commitment not to enforce a patent against the party.

If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License, through a publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent license to downstream recipients. “Knowingly relying” means you have actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the covered work in a country, or your recipient’s use of the covered work in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason to believe are valid.

If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a covered work, and grant a patent license to some of the parties receiving the covered work authorizing them to use, propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of the covered work, then the patent license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of the covered work and works based on it.

A patent license is “discriminatory” if it does not include within the scope of its coverage, prohibits the exercise of, or is conditioned on the non-exercise of one or more of the rights that are specifically granted under this License. You may not convey a covered work if you are a party to an arrangement with a third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would receive the covered work from you, a discriminatory patent license (a) in connection with copies of the covered work conveyed by you (or copies made from those copies), or (b) primarily for and in connection with specific products or compilations that contain the covered work, unless you entered into that arrangement, or that patent license was granted, prior to 28 March 2007.

Nothing in this License shall be construed as excluding or limiting any implied license or other defenses to infringement that may otherwise be available to you under applicable patent law.

12. No Surrender of Others’ Freedom.

If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot convey a covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not convey it at all. For example, if you agree to terms that obligate you to collect a royalty for further conveying from those to whom you convey the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.

13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License, section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the combination as such.

14. Revised Versions of this License.

The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies that a certain numbered version of the GNU General Public License “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)

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 https://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:

Copyright (C) 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 «https://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 «https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html».

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