GNU Free Documentation
License
Version 1.2, November 2002
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim
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0. PREAMBLE
The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook,
or other
functional and useful document "free" in the sense of
freedom: to
assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and
redistribute it,
with or without modifying it, either commercially or
noncommercially.
Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and
publisher a way
to get credit for their work, while not being considered
responsible
for modifications made by others.
This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that
derivative
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sense. It
complements the GNU General Public License, which is a
copyleft
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We have designed this License in order to use it for
manuals for free
software, because free software needs free documentation: a
free
program should come with manuals providing the same
freedoms that the
software does. But this License is not limited to
software manuals;
it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject
matter or
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recommend this License
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reference.
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work
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The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that
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itself,
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Page" means
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2. VERBATIM COPYING
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3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
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Cover
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Texts on
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addition.
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preserve
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be treated
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fit
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4. MODIFICATIONS
You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the
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title distinct
from that of the Document, and from those of
previous versions
(which should, if there were any, be listed in
the History section
of the Document). You may use the same
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gives permission.
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or entities
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principal authors of the
Document (all of its principal authors, if it
has fewer than five),
unless they release you from this requirement.
C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
Modified Version, as the publisher.
D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your
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license notice
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terms of this License, in the form shown in
the Addendum below.
G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of
Invariant Sections
and required Cover Texts given in the
Document's license notice.
H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its
Title, and add
to it an item stating at least the title,
year, new authors, and
publisher of the Modified Version as given on
the Title Page. If
there is no section Entitled "History" in the
Document, create one
stating the title, year, authors, and
publisher of the Document as
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describing the Modified
Version as stated in the previous sentence.
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Document for
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for previous versions
it was based on. These may be placed in
the "History" section.
You may omit a network location for a work
that was published at
least four years before the Document itself,
or if the original
publisher of the version it refers to gives
permission.
K. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or
"Dedications",
Preserve the Title of the section, and
preserve in the section all
the substance and tone of each of the
contributor acknowledgements
and/or dedications given therein.
L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
unaltered in their text and in their titles.
Section numbers
or the equivalent are not considered part of
the section titles.
M. Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements". Such a
section
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N. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled
"Endorsements"
or to conflict in title with any Invariant
Section.
O. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections
or
appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain
no material
copied from the Document, you may at your option designate
some or all
of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their
titles to the
list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's
license notice.
These titles must be distinct from any other section
titles.
You may add a section Entitled "Endorsements", provided it
contains
nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by
various
parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the
text has
been approved by an organization as the authoritative
definition of a
standard.
You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover
Text, and a
passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end
of the list
of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one
passage of
Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by
(or
through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the
Document already
includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added
by you or
by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on
behalf of,
you may not add another; but you may replace the old one,
on explicit
permission from the previous publisher that added the old
one.
The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by
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imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
You may combine the Document with other documents released
under this
License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for
modified
versions, provided that you include in the combination all
of the
Invariant Sections of all of the original documents,
unmodified, and
list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work
in its
license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty
Disclaimers.
The combined work need only contain one copy of this
License, and
multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with
a single
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the same name but
different contents, make the title of each such section
unique by
adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the
original
author or publisher of that section if known, or else a
unique number.
Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list
of
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work.
In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled
"History"
in the various original documents, forming one section
Entitled
"History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled
"Acknowledgements",
and any sections Entitled "Dedications". You must
delete all sections
Entitled "Endorsements".
6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
You may make a collection consisting of the Document and
other documents
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respects.
You may extract a single document from such a collection,
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7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
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separate
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If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to
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one half of
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placed on
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8. TRANSLATION
Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you
may
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section 4.
Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires
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If a section in the Document is Entitled
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"Dedications", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to
Preserve
its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the
actual
title.
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ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some
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