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@c -*-texinfo-*-
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@node GNU Free Documentation License, Concept Index, Contributors, Top
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@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
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@center Version 1.2, November 2002
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@display
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Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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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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@end display
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PREAMBLE
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The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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functional and useful document ``free'' in the sense of freedom: to
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assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
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with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
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Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way
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to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible
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for modifications made by others.
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This License is a kind of ``copyleft,'' which means that derivative
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works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
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complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
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license designed for free software.
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We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
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software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
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program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
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software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals;
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it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
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whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
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principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
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APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that
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contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be
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distributed under the terms of this License. Such a notice grants a
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world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that
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work under the conditions stated herein. The ``Document,'' below,
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refers to any such manual or work. Any member of the public is a
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licensee, and is addressed as ``you.'' You accept the license if you
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copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission
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under copyright law.
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A ``Modified Version'' of the Document means any work containing the
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Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
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modifications and/or translated into another language.
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A ``Secondary Section'' is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
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the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
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publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
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(or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
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within that overall subject. (Thus, if the Document is in part a
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textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
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mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
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connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
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commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
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them.
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The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
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are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
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that says that the Document is released under this License. If a
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section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not
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allowed to be designated as Invariant. The Document may contain zero
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Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant
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Sections then there are none.
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The ``Cover Texts'' are certain short passages of text that are listed,
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as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that
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the Document is released under this License. A Front-Cover Text may
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be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words.
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A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
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represented in a format whose specification is available to the
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general public, that is suitable for revising the document
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pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available
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drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or
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for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input
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to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file
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format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart
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or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent.
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An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount
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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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ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML
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or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple
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HTML, PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples of
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transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG. Opaque formats
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include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
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proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or
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processing tools are not generally available, and the
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machine-generated HTML, PostScript or PDF produced by some word
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processors for output purposes only.
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The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
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plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
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this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
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formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
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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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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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specific section name mentioned below, such as ``Acknowledgements,''
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``Dedications,'' ``Endorsements,'' or ``History.'') To ``Preserve the Title''
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of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
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section ``Entitled XYZ'' according to this definition.
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The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which
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states that this License applies to the Document. These Warranty
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Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this
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License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other
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implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has
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no effect on the meaning of this License.
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VERBATIM COPYING
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You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
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commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
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copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
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to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
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conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use
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technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
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copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept
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compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough
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number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
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You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
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you may publicly display copies.
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printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the
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Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the
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copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
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the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
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you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
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visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
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the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
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legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
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reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
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a computer-network location from which the general network-using
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a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material.
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the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
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Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
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responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
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Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
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Modified Version, as the publisher.@*
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publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
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it was based on. These may be placed in the ``History'' section.
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copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
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you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
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give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
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license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
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distribution medium, is called an ``aggregate'' if the copyright
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resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights
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derivative works of the Document.
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copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of
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the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
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electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.
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permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
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original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
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translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
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Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
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the original English version of this License and the original versions
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of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between
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You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
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The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
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of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
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versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
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differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
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http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.
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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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@unnumberedsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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