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1r#"SMAIL GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
2		       (Clarified 11 Feb 1988)
3
4 Copyright (C)  1988 Landon Curt Noll & Ronald S. Karr
5 Copyright (C)  1992 Ronald S. Karr
6 Copyleft (GNU) 1988 Landon Curt Noll & Ronald S. Karr
7
8 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
9 of this license, but changing it is not allowed.  You can also
10 use this wording to make the terms for other programs.
11
12  The license agreements of most software companies keep you at the
13mercy of those companies.  By contrast, our general public license is
14intended to give everyone the right to share SMAIL.  To make sure that
15you get the rights we want you to have, we need to make restrictions
16that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender
17the rights.  Hence this license agreement.
18
19  Specifically, we want to make sure that you have the right to give
20away copies of SMAIL, that you receive source code or else can get it
21if you want it, that you can change SMAIL or use pieces of it in new
22free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
23
24  To make sure that everyone has such rights, we have to forbid you to
25deprive anyone else of these rights.  For example, if you distribute
26copies of SMAIL, you must give the recipients all the rights that you
27have.  You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
28source code.  And you must tell them their rights.
29
30  Also, for our own protection, we must make certain that everyone
31finds out that there is no warranty for SMAIL.  If SMAIL is modified by
32someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what
33they have is not what we distributed, so that any problems introduced
34by others will not reflect on our reputation.
35
36  Therefore we (Landon Curt Noll and Ronald S. Karr) make the following
37terms which say what you must do to be allowed to distribute or change
38SMAIL.
39
40
41			COPYING POLICIES
42
43  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of SMAIL source code
44as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
45appropriately publish on each copy a valid copyright notice "Copyright
46(C) 1988 Landon Curt Noll & Ronald S. Karr" (or with whatever year is
47appropriate); keep intact the notices on all files that refer to this
48License Agreement and to the absence of any warranty; and give any
49other recipients of the SMAIL program a copy of this License
50Agreement along with the program.  You may charge a distribution fee
51for the physical act of transferring a copy.
52
53  2. You may modify your copy or copies of SMAIL or any portion of it,
54and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of
55Paragraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:
56
57    a) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating
58    that you changed the files and the date of any change; and
59
60    b) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish,
61    that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of SMAIL or
62    any part thereof, to be licensed at no charge to all third
63    parties on terms identical to those contained in this License
64    Agreement (except that you may choose to grant more extensive
65    warranty protection to some or all third parties, at your option).
66
67    c) You may charge a distribution fee for the physical act of
68    transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty
69    protection in exchange for a fee.
70
71Mere aggregation of another unrelated program with this program (or its
72derivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring
73the other program under the scope of these terms.
74
75  3. You may copy and distribute SMAIL (or a portion or derivative of it,
76under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
77Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
78
79    a) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
80    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
81    Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
82
83    b) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
84    years, to give any third party free (except for a nominal
85    shipping charge) a complete machine-readable copy of the
86    corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of
87    Paragraphs 1 and 2 above; or,
88
89    c) accompany it with the information you received as to where the
90    corresponding source code may be obtained.  (This alternative is
91    allowed only for non-commercial distribution and only if you
92    received the program in object code or executable form alone.)
93
94For an executable file, complete source code means all the source code for
95all modules it contains; but, as a special exception, it need not include
96source code for modules which are standard libraries that accompany the
97operating system on which the executable file runs.
98
99  4. You may not copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer SMAIL
100except as expressly provided under this License Agreement.  Any attempt
101otherwise to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer SMAIL is void and
102your rights to use the program under this License agreement shall be
103automatically terminated.  However, parties who have received computer
104software programs from you with this License Agreement will not have
105their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
106
107  5. If you wish to incorporate parts of SMAIL into other free
108programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to Landon
109Curt Noll & Ronald S. Karr via the Free Software Foundation at 51
110Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  We have not yet
111worked out a simple rule that can be stated here, but we will often
112permit this.  We will be guided by the two goals of preserving the
113free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting
114the sharing and reuse of software.
115
116Your comments and suggestions about our licensing policies and our
117software are welcome!  This contract was based on the contract made by
118the Free Software Foundation.  Please contact the Free Software
119Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
120USA, or call (617) 542-5942 for details on copylefted material in
121general.
122
123		       NO WARRANTY
124
125  BECAUSE SMAIL IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, WE PROVIDE ABSOLUTELY NO
126WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE STATE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN
127OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING, LANDON CURT NOLL & RONALD S. KARR AND/OR
128OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE SMAIL "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
129EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
130WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
131THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF SMAIL IS WITH
132YOU.  SHOULD SMAIL PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL
133NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
134
135  IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW WILL LANDON CURT NOLL &
136RONALD S. KARR AND/OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND REDISTRIBUTE
137SMAIL AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY
138LOST PROFITS, LOST MONIES, OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
139CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
140(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
141INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE
142PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS) SMAIL, EVEN IF YOU HAVE
143BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY
144ANY OTHER PARTY.
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