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Errata edits and community review comments incorporated. |\n| 2.4 | Oct 2016 | Lutfi ilteris Oney | WR 16-258 : changes on section 2.2 |\n| 2.5 | Sep 2017 | Andrew Hearn, David Buckley, Ilka Machemer, Gerald Gruber | WR 17-145 : resolution of Community Review comments including editorial corrections (figure numbering in section 4) and errata. |\n| 2.5.1 | Jan 2018 | David Buckley | Errata fixes to correct and automate crossreferences, Figure 2-4, etc . |\n\nDisclaimer  \nGS1®, under its IP Policy, seeks to avoid uncertainty regarding intellectual property claims by requiring the participants in the Work Group that developed this GS1 DataMatrix Guideline to agree to grant to GS1 members a royalty-free licence or a RAND licence to Necessary Claims, as that term is defined in the GS1 IP Policy. Furthermore, attention is drawn to the possibility that an implementation of one or more features of this Specification may be the subject of a patent or other intellectual property right that does not involve a Necessary Claim. Any such patent or other intellectual property right isnot subject to the licencing obligations of GS1 . Moreover, the agreement to grant licences provided under the GS1 IP Policy does not include IP rights and any claims of third parties who were not participants in the Work Group.  \nAccordingly, GS1 recommends that any organisation developing an implementation designed to be in conformance with this Specification should determine whether there are any patents that may encompass a specific implementation that the organisation is developing in compliance with the Specification and whether a licence under a patent or other intellectual property right is needed. 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