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The GNU Free Documentation License 1.1 in DocBook
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Markup by Eric Baudais <baudais@okstate.edu>
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Maintained by the GNOME Documentation Project
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http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp
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Last Modified: Nov 16, 2000
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Version 1.1, March 2000
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<year>2000</year><holder>Free Software Foundation, Inc.</holder>
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<legalnotice id="fdl-legalnotice">
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<address>Free Software Foundation, Inc. <street>59 Temple Place,
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
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<title>GNU Free Documentation License</title>
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<sect1 id="fdl-preamble">
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<title>0. PREAMBLE</title>
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The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or
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other written document <quote>free</quote> in the sense of
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<sect1 id="fdl-section1">
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<title>1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS</title>
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<para id="fdl-document">
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This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
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<sect1 id="fdl-section2">
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<title>2. VERBATIM COPYING</title>
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You may copy and distribute the <link
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<sect1 id="fdl-section3">
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<title>3. COPYING IN QUANTITY</title>
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limited to the covers, as long as they preserve the title of the
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<link linkend="fdl-document">Document</link> and satisfy these
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<title>4. MODIFICATIONS</title>
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Modified Version filling the role of the Document, thus
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to whoever possesses a copy of it. In addition, you must do
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Page</link> (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
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from that of the <link
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linkend="fdl-document">Document</link>, and from those of
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previous versions (which should, if there were any, be
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listed in the History section of the Document). You may
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use the same title as a previous version if the original
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publisher of that version gives permission.
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Page</link>, as authors, one or more persons or entities
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responsible for authorship of the modifications in the
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<link linkend="fdl-modified">Modified Version</link>,
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the <link linkend="fdl-document">Document</link> (all of
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required <link linkend="fdl-cover-texts">Cover
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copy of the Document, and likewise the network locations
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on. These may be placed in the <quote>History</quote>
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section. You may omit a network location for a work that
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itself, or if the original publisher of the version it
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refers to gives permission.
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<quote>Dedications</quote>, preserve the section's title,
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and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of
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text and in their titles. Section numbers or the
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<quote>Endorsements</quote>. Such a section may not be
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<link linkend="fdl-secondary">Secondary Sections</link> and
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definition of a standard.
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linkend="fdl-cover-texts">Back-Cover Text</link>, to the end of
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in the <link linkend="fdl-modified">Modified Version</link>.
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Only one passage of Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text
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acting on behalf of, you may not add another; but you may
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The author(s) and publisher(s) of the <link
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<sect1 id="fdl-section5">
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<title>5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS</title>
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You may combine the <link linkend="fdl-document">Document</link>
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with other documents released under this License, under the
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terms defined in <link linkend="fdl-section4">section 4</link>
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above for modified versions, provided that you include in the
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combination all of the <link linkend="fdl-invariant">Invariant
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and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in
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The combined work need only contain one copy of this License,
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and multiple identical <link linkend="fdl-invariant">Invariant
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author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique
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number. Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the
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In the combination, you must combine any sections entitled
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<quote>History</quote> in the various original documents,
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forming one section entitled <quote>History</quote>; likewise
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combine any sections entitled <quote>Acknowledgements</quote>,
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and any sections entitled <quote>Dedications</quote>. You must
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delete all sections entitled <quote>Endorsements.</quote>
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<title>6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS</title>
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You may make a collection consisting of the <link
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released under this License, and replace the individual copies
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is included in the collection, provided that you follow the
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rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of the
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documents in all other respects.
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You may extract a single document from such a collection, and
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dispbibute it individually under this License, provided you
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insert a copy of this License into the extracted document, and
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follow this License in all other respects regarding verbatim
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<title>7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS</title>
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A compilation of the <link
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other separate and independent documents or works, in or on a
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volume of a storage or distribution medium, does not as a whole
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count as a <link linkend="fdl-modified">Modified Version</link>
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of the Document, provided no compilation copyright is claimed
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for the compilation. Such a compilation is called an
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<quote>aggregate</quote>, and this License does not apply to the
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other self-contained works thus compiled with the Document , on
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derivative works of the Document. If the <link
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be placed on covers that surround only the Document within the
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<title>8. TRANSLATION</title>
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Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
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<title>9. TERMINATION</title>
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You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the <link
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<title>10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE</title>
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The <ulink type="http"
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url="http://www.gnu.org/fsf/fsf.html">Free Software
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<title>Addendum</title>
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To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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THEIR TITLES, with the <link
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