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Appendix E: Software End User License Agreement

High Performance Wireless-N USB Adapter

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 PROGRAM 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 PROGRAM (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 PROGRAM

TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF

SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED

OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES

END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
END OF SCHEDULE 2-A

Schedule 2-B

If this Cisco product contains open source software licensed

under Version 2 1 of the “GNU Lesser General Public

License” then the license terms below in this Schedule 2-B

will apply to that open source software The license terms

below in this Schedule 2-B are from the public web site at

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 2 1, February 1999
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51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim

copies of this license document, but changing it is not

allowed
[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL It also

counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License,

version 2, hence the version number 2 1 ]

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