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<sect2 id="licenses-gpl-terms-and-conditions-section-7" xreflabel="Section 7">
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<title>Section 7</title>
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<para>If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of
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patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent
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issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order,
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agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this
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License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this
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License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously
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your obligations under this License and any other pertinent
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obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the
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Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit
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royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who
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receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only
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way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain
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entirely from distribution of the Program.</para>
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<para>If any portion of this section is held invalid or
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unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of
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the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is
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intended to apply in other circumstances.</para>
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<para>It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to
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infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest
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validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of
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protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system,
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which is implemented by public license practices. Many people
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have made generous contributions to the wide range of software
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distributed through that system in reliance on consistent
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application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide
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if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other
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system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.</para>
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<para>This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is
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believed to be a consequence of the rest of this License.</para>
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</sect2>
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