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your obligations under this License and any other pertinent
obligations,thenasaconsequenceyoumaynotdistribute
theProgramatall.Forexample,ifapatentlicensewouldnot
permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those
whoreceivecopiesdirectlyorindirectlythroughyou,thenthe
only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable
underanyparticularcircumstance,thebalanceofthesection
is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to
apply in other circumstances.
It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe
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people have made generous contributions to the wide range
of software distributed through that system in reliance
onconsistentapplicationofthatsystem;itisuptotheauthor/
donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software
through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that
choice.
This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is
believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License.
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the original copyright holder who places the Program under
this License may add an explicit geographical distribution
limitationexcludingthosecountries,sothatdistributionis
permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In
suchcase,thisLicenseincorporatesthelimitationasifwritten
in the body of this License.
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versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such
newversionswillbesimilarinspirittothepresentversion,but
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