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@node GNU Free Documentation License
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@appendixsec GNU Free Documentation License
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@cindex FDL, GNU Free Documentation License
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@center Version 1.2, November 2002
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@c The GNU Free Documentation License.
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@center Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
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@c This file is intended to be included within another document,
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@c hence no sectioning command or @node.
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Copyright @copyright{} 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
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Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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of text. A copy that is not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque''.
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Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
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@sc{ascii} without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input
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format, @acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} using a publicly available
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@acronym{DTD}, and standard-conforming simple @acronym{HTML},
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PostScript or @acronym{PDF} designed for human modification. Examples
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of transparent image formats include @acronym{PNG}, @acronym{XCF} and
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@acronym{JPG}. Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be
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read and edited only by proprietary word processors, @acronym{SGML} or
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@acronym{XML} for which the @acronym{DTD} and/or processing tools are
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not generally available, and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML},
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PostScript or @acronym{PDF} produced by some word processors for
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ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input
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format, SGML or XML using a publicly available
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DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML,
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PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples
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of transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and
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JPG. Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be
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read and edited only by proprietary word processors, SGML or
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XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools are
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not generally available, and the machine-generated HTML,
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PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for
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output purposes only.
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The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
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the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
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preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
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The ``publisher'' means any person or entity that distributes copies
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of the Document to the public.
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A section ``Entitled XYZ'' means a named subunit of the Document whose
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title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
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text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a
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You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
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as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
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copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
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automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
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parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
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License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
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parties remain in full compliance.
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You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
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except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
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otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute it is void, and
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will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
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However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
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from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally,
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unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally
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terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder
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fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to
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60 days after the cessation.
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Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
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reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
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violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
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received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
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copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
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your receipt of the notice.
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Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the
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licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under
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this License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently
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reinstated, receipt of a copy of some or all of the same material does
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not give you any rights to use it.
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FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
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Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
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number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
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as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
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as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document
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specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of this
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License can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a
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version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the
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``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site'' (or ``MMC Site'') means any
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World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also
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provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works. A
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public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server. A
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``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration'' (or ``MMC'') contained in the
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site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC
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``CC-BY-SA'' means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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license published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit
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corporation with a principal place of business in San Francisco,
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California, as well as future copyleft versions of that license
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published by that same organization.
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``Incorporate'' means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
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in part, as part of another Document.
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An MMC is ``eligible for relicensing'' if it is licensed under this
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License, and if all works that were first published under this License
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somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole
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or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections,
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and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.
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The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site
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under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009,
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provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.
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@appendixsubsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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@heading ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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the License in the document and put the following copyright and
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Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
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