Terms And Conditions - Sony STR-DA3700ES Software License Information

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have certain responsibilities if you distribute
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others.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a
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they, too, receive or can get the source code.
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GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty
for this free software. For both users' and
authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified
versions be marked as changed, so that their
problems will not be attributed erroneously to
authors of previous versions.
Some devices are designed to deny users
access to install or run modified versions of the
software inside them, although the
manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally
incompatible with the aim of protecting users'
freedom to change the software. The
systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the
area of products for individuals to use, which
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is precisely where it is most unacceptable.
Therefore, we have designed this version of
the GPL to prohibit the practice for those
products. If such problems arise substantially
in other domains, we stand ready to extend this
provision to those domains in future versions
of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom
of users.
Finally, every program is threatened
constantly by software patents. States should
not allow patents to restrict development and
use of software on general-purpose computers,
but in those that do, we wish to avoid the
special danger that patents applied to a free
program could make it effectively proprietary.
To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents
cannot be used to render the program non-free.
The precise terms and conditions for copying,
distribution and modification follow.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

0. Definitions.
"This License" refers to version 3 of the GNU
General Public License.
"Copyright" also means copyright-like laws
that apply to other kinds of works, such as
semiconductor masks.
"The Program" refers to any copyrightable
work licensed under this License. Each
licensee is addressed as "you". "Licensees"
and "recipients" may be individuals or
organizations.
To "modify" a work means to copy from or
adapt all or part of the work in a fashion
requiring copyright permission, other than the
making of an exact copy. The resulting work is
called a "modified version" of the earlier work
or a work "based on" the earlier work.
A "covered work" means either the
unmodified Program or a work based on the
Program.
To "propagate" a work means to do anything
with it that, without permission, would make
you directly or secondarily liable for
infringement under applicable copyright law,