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Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed
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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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patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Library
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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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 Library specifies a version number of this
License which applies to it and “any later version”, you have the option of following the terms
and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation. If the Library does not specify a license version number, you may choose any
version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
14. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Library into other free programs whose distribution
conditions are incompatible with these, write to the author to ask for permission. For software
which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation;
we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals of
preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing
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