                   Eips Lesser Network Exception

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                             Preamble

The intent of this exception is to provide a "weak copyleft" version of
the AGPL's requirement to share the source code of network services,
where a network service that uses a library covered under this exception
only needs to provide the source code of the library. This exception
does not affect which source code you need to provide when distributing
a program in binary form; the usual "strong copyleft" provisions apply
in that case, in the same way as the ordinary GPL.

                       TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Definitions.

   "AGPLv3" refers to version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License
   as published by the Free Software Foundation.

   The terms "the Program", "modify", "modified version", "based on",
   and "Corresponding Source" have the same meaning as in AGPLv3.

   The "Application Portion" of a modified version of the Program is the
   portion of the modified version that is not based on the Program in
   any way other than due to its use of public interfaces provided by
   the Program. The remaining portion of the modified version is known
   as the "Library Portion". With respect to a modified version of the
   Program that you make, you may choose to reclassify any part of the
   Application Portion as instead belonging to the Library Portion.

   The "Library Source" for a modified version of the Program is the
   Corresponding Source for the modified version, excluding any source
   code that is solely part of the Application Portion rather than the
   Library Portion.

2. Additional Permission.

   As an additional permission under AGPLv3 section 7, if you modify the
   Program, in situations where your modified version would, as
   described in AGPLv3 section 13, normally be required to offer an
   opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source to a user interacting
   with it through a network, your modified version may instead offer an
   opportunity to receive the Library Source, provided the following
   condition is met:

   i) The Application Portion must not rely on functionality from the
      Library Portion that can be achieved only by using the Library
      Portion in a way that is sufficiently complex, intimate, or
      reliant on data not provided by the Library Portion that an
      individual reasonably skilled in computer programming would not be
      able to achieve similar functionality given only the Library
      Source rather than the Corresponding Source. If the Application
      Portion does rely on such functionality, you must add the
      functionality to the Library Portion, either by reclassifying the
      relevant parts of the Application Portion as belonging instead to
      the Library Portion, or by directly reimplementing the
      functionality into the Library Portion, to the extent required to
      satisfy this condition.
