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49844623 1.TH GFDL 1 "2005 September 17"
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2.SH NAME
3GFDL \- The GNU Free Documentation License
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49844623 6Version 1.2, November 2002
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bfd6d01a 132000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
364c38d3 1451 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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16Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
17of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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22.SH 0. PREAMBLE
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24The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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25functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to
26assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
27with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
28Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way
29to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible
30for modifications made by others.
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32This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
33works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
34complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
35license designed for free software.
36
37We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
38software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
39program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
40software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals;
41it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
42whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
43principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
44
45.SH 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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47This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that
48contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be
49distributed under the terms of this License. Such a notice grants a
50world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that
51work under the conditions stated herein. The "Document", below,
52refers to any such manual or work. Any member of the public is a
53licensee, and is addressed as "you". You accept the license if you
54copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission
55under copyright law.
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57A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
58Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
59modifications and/or translated into another language.
60
61A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
62the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
63publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
64(or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
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66textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
67mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
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70them.
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72The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
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77Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant
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80The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are listed,
81as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that
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82the Document is released under this License. A Front-Cover Text may
83be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words.
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85A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
86represented in a format whose specification is available to the
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88straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of
89pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available
90drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or
91for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input
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93format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart
94or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent.
95An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount
96of text. A copy that is not "Transparent" is called "Opaque".
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98Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
99ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML
100or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple
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101HTML, PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples of
102transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG. Opaque formats
103include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
104proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or
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106machine-generated HTML, PostScript or PDF produced by some word
107processors for output purposes only.
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109The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
110plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
111this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
112formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means
113the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
114preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
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116A section "Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit of the Document whose
117title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
118text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a
119specific section name mentioned below, such as "Acknowledgements",
120"Dedications", "Endorsements", or "History".) To "Preserve the Title"
121of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
122section "Entitled XYZ" according to this definition.
123
124The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which
125states that this License applies to the Document. These Warranty
126Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this
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128implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has
129no effect on the meaning of this License.
130
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131.SH 2. VERBATIM COPYING
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133You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
134commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
135copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
136to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
137conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use
138technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
139copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept
140compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough
141number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
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143You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
144you may publicly display copies.
145
146.SH 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
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148If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have
149printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the
150Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the
151copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
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152Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
153the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
154you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
155the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
156visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
157Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
158the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
159as verbatim copying in other respects.
160
161If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
162legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
163reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
164pages.
165
166If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
167more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent
168copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy
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169a computer-network location from which the general network-using
170public has access to download using public-standard network protocols
171a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material.
172If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps,
173when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure
174that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated
175location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an
176Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that
177edition to the public.
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179It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
180Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give
181them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.
182
183.SH 4. MODIFICATIONS
184
185You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
186the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
187the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
188Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
189and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
190of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
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192A.
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193Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct from
194that of the Document, and from those of previous versions (which should,
195if there were any, be listed in the History section of the Document).
196You may use the same title as a previous version if the original
197publisher of that version gives permission.
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199B.
200List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
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201responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version,
202together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document
203(all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they
204release you from this requirement.
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207State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
208Modified Version, as the publisher.
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210D.
211Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
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214Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
215adjacent to the other copyright notices.
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218Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
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219giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the terms
220of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
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222G.
223Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
224and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
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226H.
227Include an unaltered copy of this License.
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230Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add to
231it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and publisher
232of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If there is no
233section Entitled "History" in the Document, create one stating the
234title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as given on its
235Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated
236in the previous sentence.
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239Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for public
240access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise the network
241locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on.
242These may be placed in the "History" section. You may omit a network
243location for a work that was published at least four years before the
244Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version it refers
245to gives permission.
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248For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications", Preserve
249the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the substance
250and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or dedications
251given therein.
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254Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered in their
255text and in their titles. Section numbers or the equivalent are not
256considered part of the section titles.
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259Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements". Such a section may not be
260included in the Modified Version.
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263Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled "Endorsements" or to
264conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
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267Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
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269If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
270appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
271copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
272of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
273list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
274These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
275
49844623 276You may add a section Entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains
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277nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
278parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
279been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
280standard.
281
282You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
283passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
284of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
285Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
286through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
287includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
288by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
289you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
290permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
291
292The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
293give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
294imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
295
296.SH 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
297
298You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
299License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
300versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
301Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
302list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
49844623 303license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
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305The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
306multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
307copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
308different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
309adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
310author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
311Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
312Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
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314In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled "History"
315in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
316"History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled "Acknowledgements",
317and any sections Entitled "Dedications". You must delete all sections
318Entitled "Endorsements".
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320.SH 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
321
322You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
323released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
324License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
325the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
326verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
327
328You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
329it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
330License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
331other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
332
333.SH 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
334
335A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
336and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
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337distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the copyright
338resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights
339of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
340When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not
341apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves
342derivative works of the Document.
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344If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
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345copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of
346the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
347covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
348electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.
349Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
350aggregate.
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352.SH 8. TRANSLATION
353
354Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
355distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
356Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
357permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
358translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
359original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
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360translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
361Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
362the original English version of this License and the original versions
363of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between
364the translation and the original version of this License or a notice
365or disclaimer, the original version will prevail.
366
367If a section in the Document is Entitled "Acknowledgements",
368"Dedications", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to Preserve
369its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
370title.
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372.SH 9. TERMINATION
373
374You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
375as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
376copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
377automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
378parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
379License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
380parties remain in full compliance.
381
382.SH 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
383
384The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
385of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
386versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
387differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
388\fBhttp://www.gnu.org/copyleft/\fP.
389
390Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
391If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
392License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the option of
393following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
394of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
395Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
396number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
397as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
398
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399.SH ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
400
401To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
402the License in the document and put the following copyright and
403license notices just after the title page:
404
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411Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
49844623 412under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
7eae0a38 413or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
49844623 414with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
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415A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
416Free Documentation License."
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420If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
421replace the "with...Texts." line with this:
422
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425 with the Invariant Sections being [\fILIST THEIR TITLES\fP], with the
426 Front-Cover Texts being [\fILIST\fP], and with the Back-Cover Texts being
427 [\fILIST\fP].
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431If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
432combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
433situation.
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435If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
436recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
437free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
438to permit their use in free software.
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