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b8d4c8d0 1@c -*-texinfo-*-
a6b58e1d 2@c The GNU Free Documentation License.
ecc6530d 3@node GNU Free Documentation License
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5@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
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6@center Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
7
8@c This file is intended to be included within another document,
9@c hence no sectioning command or @node.
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11@display
6ed161e1 12Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
a6b58e1d 13@uref{http://fsf.org/}
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15Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
16of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
17@end display
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19@enumerate 0
20@item
21PREAMBLE
22
23The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
a6b58e1d 24functional and useful document @dfn{free} in the sense of freedom: to
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25assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
26with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
27Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way
28to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible
29for modifications made by others.
30
a6b58e1d 31This License is a kind of ``copyleft'', which means that derivative
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32works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
33complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
34license designed for free software.
35
36We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
37software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
38program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
39software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals;
40it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
41whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
42principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
43
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44@item
45APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
46
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
a6b58e1d 51work under the conditions stated herein. The ``Document'', below,
b8d4c8d0 52refers to any such manual or work. Any member of the public is a
a6b58e1d 53licensee, and is addressed as ``you''. You accept the license if you
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54copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission
55under copyright law.
56
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
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61A ``Secondary Section'' is a named appendix or a front-matter section
62of the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
63publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall
64subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall
65directly within that overall subject. (Thus, if the Document is in
66part a textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain
67any mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
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68connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
69commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
70them.
71
72The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
73are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
74that says that the Document is released under this License. If a
75section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not
76allowed to be designated as Invariant. The Document may contain zero
77Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant
78Sections then there are none.
79
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
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.
84
85A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
86represented in a format whose specification is available to the
87general public, that is suitable for revising the document
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
92to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file
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
a6b58e1d 96of text. A copy that is not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque''.
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97
98Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
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99@sc{ascii} without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input
100format, @acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} using a publicly available
101@acronym{DTD}, and standard-conforming simple @acronym{HTML},
102PostScript or @acronym{PDF} designed for human modification. Examples
103of transparent image formats include @acronym{PNG}, @acronym{XCF} and
104@acronym{JPG}. Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be
105read and edited only by proprietary word processors, @acronym{SGML} or
106@acronym{XML} for which the @acronym{DTD} and/or processing tools are
107not generally available, and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML},
108PostScript or @acronym{PDF} produced by some word processors for
109output purposes only.
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110
111The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
112plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
113this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
114formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
115the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
116preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
117
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118The ``publisher'' means any person or entity that distributes copies
119of the Document to the public.
120
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121A section ``Entitled XYZ'' means a named subunit of the Document whose
122title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
123text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a
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124specific section name mentioned below, such as ``Acknowledgements'',
125``Dedications'', ``Endorsements'', or ``History''.) To ``Preserve the Title''
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126of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
127section ``Entitled XYZ'' according to this definition.
128
129The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which
130states that this License applies to the Document. These Warranty
131Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this
132License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other
133implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has
134no effect on the meaning of this License.
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136@item
137VERBATIM COPYING
138
139You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
140commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
141copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
142to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
143conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use
144technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
145copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept
146compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough
147number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
148
149You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
150you may publicly display copies.
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152@item
153COPYING IN QUANTITY
154
155If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have
156printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the
157Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the
158copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
159Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
160the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
161you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
162the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
163visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
164Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
165the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
166as verbatim copying in other respects.
167
168If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
169legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
170reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
171pages.
172
173If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
174more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent
175copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy
176a computer-network location from which the general network-using
177public has access to download using public-standard network protocols
178a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material.
179If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps,
180when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure
181that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated
182location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an
183Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that
184edition to the public.
185
186It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
187Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give
188them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.
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190@item
191MODIFICATIONS
192
193You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
194the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
195the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
196Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
197and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
198of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
199
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200@enumerate A
201@item
202Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
203from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions
204(which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
205of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version
206if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
207
208@item
209List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
210responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
211Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
212Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five),
213unless they release you from this requirement.
214
215@item
216State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
217Modified Version, as the publisher.
218
219@item
220Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
221
222@item
223Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
224adjacent to the other copyright notices.
225
226@item
227Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
228giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the
229terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
230
231@item
232Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
233and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
234
235@item
236Include an unaltered copy of this License.
237
238@item
239Preserve the section Entitled ``History'', Preserve its Title, and add
240to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
241publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
242there is no section Entitled ``History'' in the Document, create one
243stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
244given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
245Version as stated in the previous sentence.
246
247@item
248Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
249public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
250the network locations given in the Document for previous versions
251it was based on. These may be placed in the ``History'' section.
252You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
253least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
254publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
255
256@item
257For any section Entitled ``Acknowledgements'' or ``Dedications'', Preserve
258the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the
259substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or
260dedications given therein.
261
262@item
263Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
264unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
265or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
266
267@item
268Delete any section Entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section
269may not be included in the Modified Version.
270
271@item
272Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled ``Endorsements'' or
273to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
274
275@item
276Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
277@end enumerate
278
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279If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
280appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
281copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
282of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
283list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
284These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
285
a6b58e1d 286You may add a section Entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains
b8d4c8d0 287nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
a6b58e1d 288parties---for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
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289been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
290standard.
291
292You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
293passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
294of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
295Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
296through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
297includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
298by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
299you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
300permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
301
302The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
303give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
304imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
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306@item
307COMBINING DOCUMENTS
308
309You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
310License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
311versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
312Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
313list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
314license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
315
316The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
317multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
318copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
319different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
320adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
321author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
322Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
323Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
324
325In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled ``History''
326in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
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327``History''; likewise combine any sections Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
328and any sections Entitled ``Dedications''. You must delete all
329sections Entitled ``Endorsements.''
330
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331@item
332COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
333
334You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
335released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
336License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
337the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
338verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
339
340You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
341it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
342License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
343other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
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345@item
346AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
347
348A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
349and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
350distribution medium, is called an ``aggregate'' if the copyright
351resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights
352of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
353When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not
354apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves
355derivative works of the Document.
356
357If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
358copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of
359the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
360covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
361electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.
362Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
363aggregate.
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365@item
366TRANSLATION
367
368Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
369distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
370Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
371permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
372translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
373original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
374translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
375Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
376the original English version of this License and the original versions
377of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between
378the translation and the original version of this License or a notice
379or disclaimer, the original version will prevail.
380
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381If a section in the Document is Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
382``Dedications'', or ``History'', the requirement (section 4) to Preserve
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383its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
384title.
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386@item
387TERMINATION
388
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389You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
390except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
391otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute it is void, and
392will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
393
394However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
395from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally,
396unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally
397terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder
398fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to
39960 days after the cessation.
400
401Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
402reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
403violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
404received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
405copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
406your receipt of the notice.
407
408Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the
409licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under
410this License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently
411reinstated, receipt of a copy of some or all of the same material does
412not give you any rights to use it.
413
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414@item
415FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
416
417The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
418of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
419versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
420differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
a6b58e1d 421@uref{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/}.
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422
423Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
424If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
425License ``or any later version'' applies to it, you have the option of
426following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
427of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
428Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
429number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
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430as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document
431specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of this
432License can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a
433version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the
434Document.
435
436@item
437RELICENSING
438
439``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site'' (or ``MMC Site'') means any
440World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also
441provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works. A
442public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server. A
443``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration'' (or ``MMC'') contained in the
444site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC
445site.
446
447``CC-BY-SA'' means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
448license published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit
449corporation with a principal place of business in San Francisco,
450California, as well as future copyleft versions of that license
451published by that same organization.
452
453``Incorporate'' means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
454in part, as part of another Document.
455
456An MMC is ``eligible for relicensing'' if it is licensed under this
457License, and if all works that were first published under this License
458somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole
459or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections,
460and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.
461
462The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site
463under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009,
464provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.
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465
466@end enumerate
467
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468@page
469@heading ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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470
471To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
472the License in the document and put the following copyright and
473license notices just after the title page:
474
475@smallexample
476@group
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477 Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}.
478 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
479 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
480 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
481 with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
482 Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
483 Free Documentation License''.
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484@end group
485@end smallexample
486
487If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
a6b58e1d 488replace the ``with@dots{}Texts.'' line with this:
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489
490@smallexample
491@group
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492 with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with
493 the Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts
494 being @var{list}.
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495@end group
496@end smallexample
497
498If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
499combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
500situation.
501
502If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
503recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
504free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
505to permit their use in free software.
506
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508@c Local Variables:
509@c ispell-local-pdict: "ispell-dict"
510@c End: