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This file contains Original Code and/or Modifications of Original Code, and is subject to the license terms below. If this file contains portions of other code, it is so noted at the end of this license, with copyright credit as required.

The intent of the Author with regards to this software package and license, is to allow all end users (personal, corporate or other) to be able to freely use this software to protect their computers, data and assets; but nobody should be free to further profit from the Original Code or Original Work(s) of the Author, by incorporating any portion of Original Code in commercial software, packages or offerings, without explicit written authorization from the Author. The Author generally encourages Open Source works, but in this case wishes to ensure that all users may continue to use this package free of charge, as philosophically the Author is opposed to people and companies making profits from legitimate users trying to protect their valuable resources, due to the inherent security weakness in the design of the Internet and/or traditional UNIX based software, which have led to the current explosion of abuse of systems and servers, by criminals, hackers, bulk mailers etc.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose WITHOUT any fee is hereby granted as long as such purposes do not violate the terms of this license, and provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice and license appear unmodified in ALL copies, distributed or stored. Permission is expressly denied and withheld for any commercial uses of this Original Code, either in whole or part, or for any purpose with a direct, or any indirect, fee. You may not include Original Code of the Author in any other work or package that will be sold, rented, or leased commercially. All commercial rights reserved, and all intellectual property and patent rights remain with the author.

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This license is automatically extended, if in the future, the Author exercises any intellectual property, or patent, rights connected with any of the Original Code included in this package. ALL end users using this package within the terms of this license, will automatically licensed to use those exercised or covered claims free of charge as they apply to this software package. FWSentry.

See http://info.fwsentry.org for more information on this package, or see http://fwsentry.org/bugs/submission.html to report bugs or request new features or improvements, or contact suppo.nosp@m.rt@f.nosp@m.wsent.nosp@m.ry.o.nosp@m.rg. Bugs will be addressed, new feature requests and program improvements will be considered, at the sole discretion of the Author. Updates and new releases may be issued in the future, if the Author considers it practical, enjoyable and desirable. Statement of Support.

Bug reports must be accompanied with a reasonable description and reasonable documentation of the problem, and any code changes you may have made to the affected module. If the problem turns out to be an issue with code not supplied by the author, the author may, or may not, choose to fix it.

If implemented, such requests or bug fixes may be added to a later release, package update, or support patch, at the sole discretion of the author, within time-frame's suitable to the author. All support that may optionally be provided by the author, including but not limited to, responding to requests for new attack signatures, bug reports, new feature requests, or general usage support; will be provided on an "as-is" basis, at the sole discretion of the author. Any and all support, or resulting code, documentation, or product changes, will be provided with the same license and legal disclaimers described in the original package (and above) and with absolutely no warranties, implied, stated or otherwise.