End-User License Agreement
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Please read this carefully before installing or using this software.

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This software (hereafter referred to as "UnZixWin" is freeware. No payment is expected or accepted in return for its usage. It is offered as a service to the Internet community.

In excange, the end user (hereafter referred to as "You") aggrees not to seek any remuneration (read: money) or make any claim towards its developer and original distributor (Hereafter referred to as "I" and "Me", respectively) for any financial or other loss or damage arising from the use of this software. Plainly stated: You aggree not to sue me.

The developer and original distributor of this software makes no guarantee about the software, its reliability, or usability for any particular purpose.

Furthermore, the developer claims no responsibility, financial or otherwise, for any damage arising from its usage (including, but not limited to: loss of data, loss of billable time, loss of money, loss of fuctionality or operability of the target computer or its operating system, damage to the target computer or its operating system.)

The developer (Me) assures that no damage to hardware or software, loss of data or information, or other serious problem is either intended or expected. 
However, the developer (I) cannot reasonably be expected to be able to control the circulation of the software, the means of distributing the software, which servers on which the software will reside, or what, if any, alteration might conceivably be made to it before reaching the end user. Therefore, the developer cannot be expected to guarantee that the software has not been tampered with before reaching the end user (You).

The end user (You) aggrees to take reasonable precautions before running any piece of executable code found alongside this document, including: carefully reading the "readme.txt" document before running any executable code, scanning any and all executable code with a trusted antivirus utility, and, optionally, take precautions to back up and/or make other suitable arrangements to protect the system.

***NOTE: The term "reasonable precautions" shall be understood to include *NOT* previously or subsequently having installed or executed the WinZix software, or any software originating from http://www.winzix.com, its affiliate web sites, or customers, on the intended target computer. Having done so, the computer shall be considered to be compromised, and no guarantee is to be assumed about any software, this or otherwise, residing on the computer or executed on the computer. It shall be understood that such an action voids any guarantee about any software, this or otherwise, residing on and/or executed on it. In such a case, the computer shall be considered to be compromised untill a full reinstallation of any and all software, data, file systems and operating systems has been made.

The term "software" mentioned in the previous paragraph shall *NOT* be understood to include any ZIX archive generated before May 1st, 2007. Up until this date, ZIX arcives shall be considered to constitute data, not software. However, future (as of May 2nd, 2007) instances of WinZix archives cannot be guaranteed not to contain malicious pieces of executable code, and do thus not apply to this understanding. For all intents and purposes, ZIX archives produced after May 1st, 2007, shall be considered to constitute software. Furthermore, any piece of executable code residing within the contents of a ZIX archive, WHENEVER PRODUCED AND WHEREVER ORIGINATED, shall still unconditionally be considered software.

The developer (I) will not be obligated to provide any support, technical or otherwise, for the usage and functionality of this software (UnZixWin), beyond documentation and source code provided along with its original distribution. Furthermore, the developer will not be obligated to provide any bug fixes, revisions, patches, or further development of the software. The developer welcomes feedback, but will not be obligated to respond on any communication or take any action on such communication. Any help, support or communication between the end user (You) and the developer (Me) shall be understood to be optional and performed solely on a voluntary basis.

Running the enclosed executable ("UnZixWin.exe", specifically) shall be considered to constitute full agreement with, and acceptance of, the above terms and limitations.

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Friendly transation: Use this software at your own risk, don't blame me for anything that might happen, don't sue me for any reason, and don't hassle me for support. If you install WinZix, whatever happens to your system is probably their fault. Feedback is welcome, but I can't promise to respond to it or act on it.
