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its contents constitute a work based on the
Library (independent of the use of the Library
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program that uses the Library does.
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You may copy and distribute verbatim
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If a facility in the modified Library
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be supplied by an application program
that uses the facility, other than as an
argument passed when the facility is
invoked, then you must make a good
faith effort to ensure that, in the event
an application does not supply such
function or table, the facility still
operates, and performs whatever part
of its purpose remains meaningful.
(For example, a function in a library to
compute square roots has a purpose that is
entirely well-defined independent of the
application. Therefore, Subsection 2d
requires that any application-supplied
function or table used by this function
must be optional: if the application does
not supply it, the square root function must
still compute square roots.)
These requirements apply to the modified
work as a whole. If identifiable sections of
that work are not derived from the Library,
and can be reasonably considered
independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its
terms, do not apply to those sections when
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Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim
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Library.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work
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with a work based on the Library) on a volume
of a storage or distribution medium does not
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License.
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You may opt to apply the terms of the
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Do not make any other change in these
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