LICENSE STATEMENT

All copyrights to NetFilter SDK are exclusively owned by the author - Vitaly Sidorov

Using NetFilter SDK

The sources provided as part of the NetFilter SDK product are intended to be incorporated into your own programs. You may modify the source code of the NetFilter SDK to adapt it to your needs. Nevertheless, the original NetFilter SDK sources, samples and documentation are the property of author and author provides you with only specific and limited rights to their use. Subject to the foregoing rights of the author and subject to the paragraph below entitled “Distribution in Source Form”, you may own the source code modified by you. Any rights not specifically granted in this statement are reserved by author.

Distribution In Executable Form

Author grants you the right to copy the NetFilter SDK and incorporate it into your own programs as long as your program adds substantial functionality beyond that provided in the original sources. You may distribute programs that you create and which contain elements of the original NetFilter SDK, in executable form only, without restriction or fee provided that all copies of your programs bear a valid copyright notice. By “copyright notice”, we mean your own copyright notice. You, of course, shall remain solely responsible for, and will hold author harmless from, all claims, liability and damages arising from your own products which may include elements of the NetFilter SDK code. The right of users to use the program into which the NetFilter SDK has been incorporated is perpetual even if this License Statement is terminated.

Distribution In Source Form

Author does not grant you the right to give away, sell, license or otherwise distribute source code derived substantially from the NetFilter SDK unless the recipient of your source code obtains their own license to the NetFilter SDK, identical to this license and at the same cost that you paid for this license.

LIMITED WARRANTY

Warranty Disclaimer

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