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THE GIBBS SURNAME DNA PROJECT
Terms And Conditions Of Use Governing This Web Site and Its Content
Open Access To Information Is Our Policy . . .
Perhaps the greatest value that the Internet and the World Wide Web have is their ability to act as a conduit of information that, under ideal circumstances, is free for the asking and available without restriction. It is this freedom of access that makes it possible for a web site to become a valuable forum for the exchange and preservation of all kinds of wonderful content. It is to maintain that freedom of access that we hereby stipulate these TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE. By using the content of this web site you acknowledge and indicate your agreement with this general policy and with the specifics of the license that follows.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender your rights to whatever you may contribute. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the GSDNAP web site or its content, whether or not you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of the web site or its content, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the information. And you must show them these terms and conditions so they know their rights.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the entire web site, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
distribute and/or modify the site and its content.
Also, for each contributor's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free information. If the content is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any errors introduced by others will not reflect on the original contributors' reputations.
Finally, any forum for free exchange of information is threatened constantly by individuals who wish to obtain an exclusive copyright for some or all of the content. There is also the liability that we would have if contributors knowingly, or unknowingly, submit content which is under copyright by original authors. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of the free content found here will individually obtain copyrights to that information, in effect making this material proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any copyright of material published here must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.
GSDNAP General Public License . . .
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. This License applies to any web site or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "web site", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the web site" means either the web site or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the web site or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of viewing the web site is not restricted, and any derivation of the web site is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the web site (independent of having been made by copying the web site verbatim).
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the web site and/or its content as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of any such copies a copy of this License along with the derived content.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the web site or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the web site, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified information to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the information and the date of any change.
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the web site or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the web site, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the web site, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the web site.
In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the web site with the web site (or with a work based on the web site) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.
3. You may copy and distribute the web site (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in html code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete copy of the corresponding html code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the web site in html code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the web site except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the web site is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the web site, its content, or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the web site (or any work based on the web site), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the web site or works based on it.
6. Each time you redistribute the web site (or any work based on the web site), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the web site subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the web site at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the web site by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the web site.
If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.
It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any copyrights or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free information distribution policy, which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of information distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that policy; it is up to the author/contributor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute information under any other policy 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.
8. If the distribution and/or use of the web site is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the web site 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.
9. The Gibbs Surname DNA Project may publish revised and/or new versions of the GSDNAP 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 web site 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 Gibbs Surname DNA Project. If the web site does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Gibbs Surname DNA Project.
10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the web site into other free works whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For content which is copyrighted by the Gibbs Surname DNA Project, write to the Gibbs Surname DNA Project; 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 and reuse of software generally.
NO WARRANTY
11. BECAUSE THE WEB SITE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE WEB SITE OR ITS CONTENT, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE WEB SITE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE WEB SITE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE WEB SITE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
12. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE WEB SITE AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEB SITE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE WEB SITE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER WEB SITES), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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