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This license allows WhatsApp to use, copy, distribute, sublicense, and transfer user-provided information broadly, including creating derivative works, without paying users and without exclusivity restrictions on the user.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'the information'; the full clause likely specifies what categories of information are covered and may include conditions or term limitations that are not visible and have not been assumed.
The reader grants WhatsApp broad rights over information they provide, including the right to sublicense and transfer those rights to others, at no cost to WhatsApp.
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This license allows WhatsApp to use, copy, distribute, sublicense, and transfer user-provided information broadly, including creating derivative works, without paying users and without exclusivity restrictions on the user.
The reader grants WhatsApp broad rights over information they provide, including the right to sublicense and transfer those rights to others, at no cost to WhatsApp.
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