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2@node GNU Free Documentation License
3@appendixsec GNU Free Documentation License
4
5@cindex FDL, GNU Free Documentation License
6@center Version 1.1, March 2000
7
8@display
9Copyright @copyright{} 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1059 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
11
12Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
13of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
14@end display
15
16@enumerate 0
17@item
18PREAMBLE
19
20The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
21written document @dfn{free} in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone
22the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without
23modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily,
24this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get
25credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for
26modifications made by others.
27
28This License is a kind of ``copyleft'', which means that derivative
29works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
30complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
31license designed for free software.
32
33We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
34software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
35program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
36software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals;
37it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
38whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
39principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
40
41@item
42APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
43
44This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
45notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed
46under the terms of this License. The ``Document'', below, refers to any
47such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is
48addressed as ``you''.
49
50A ``Modified Version'' of the Document means any work containing the
51Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
52modifications and/or translated into another language.
53
54A ``Secondary Section'' is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
55the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
56publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
57(or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
58within that overall subject. (For example, if the Document is in part a
59textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
60mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
61connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
62commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
63them.
64
65The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
66are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
67that says that the Document is released under this License.
68
69The ``Cover Texts'' are certain short passages of text that are listed,
70as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that
71the Document is released under this License.
72
73A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
74represented in a format whose specification is available to the
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85Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
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91proprietary word processors, @acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} for which
92the @acronym{DTD} and/or processing tools are not generally available,
93and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML} produced by some word
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95
96The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
97plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
98this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
99formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
100the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
101preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
102
103@item
104VERBATIM COPYING
105
106You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
107commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
108copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
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110conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use
111technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
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115
116You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
117you may publicly display copies.
118
119@item
120COPYING IN QUANTITY
121
122If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than 100,
123and the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose
124the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
125Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
126the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
127you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
128the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
129visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
130Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
131the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
132as verbatim copying in other respects.
133
134If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
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137pages.
138
139If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
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151the public.
152
153It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
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156
157@item
158MODIFICATIONS
159
160You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
161the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
162the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
163Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
164and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
165of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
166
167@enumerate A
168@item
169Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
170from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions
171(which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
172of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version
173if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
174
175@item
176List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
177responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
178Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
179Document (all of its principal authors, if it has less than five).
180
181@item
182State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
183Modified Version, as the publisher.
184
185@item
186Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
187
188@item
189Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
190adjacent to the other copyright notices.
191
192@item
193Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
194giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the
195terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
196
197@item
198Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
199and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
200
201@item
202Include an unaltered copy of this License.
203
204@item
205Preserve the section entitled ``History'', and its title, and add to
206it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
207publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
208there is no section entitled ``History'' in the Document, create one
209stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
210given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
211Version as stated in the previous sentence.
212
213@item
214Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
215public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
216the network locations given in the Document for previous versions
217it was based on. These may be placed in the ``History'' section.
218You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
219least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
220publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
221
222@item
223In any section entitled ``Acknowledgments'' or ``Dedications'',
224preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the
225substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgments
226and/or dedications given therein.
227
228@item
229Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
230unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
231or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
232
233@item
234Delete any section entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section
235may not be included in the Modified Version.
236
237@item
238Do not retitle any existing section as ``Endorsements''
239or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
240@end enumerate
241
242If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
243appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
244copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
245of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
246list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
247These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
248
249You may add a section entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains
250nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
251parties---for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
252been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
253standard.
254
255You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
256passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
257of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
258Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
259through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
260includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
261by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
262you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
263permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
264
265The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
266give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
267imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
268
269@item
270COMBINING DOCUMENTS
271
272You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
273License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
274versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
275Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
276list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
277license notice.
278
279The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
280multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
281copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
282different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
283adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
284author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
285Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
286Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
287
288In the combination, you must combine any sections entitled ``History''
289in the various original documents, forming one section entitled
290``History''; likewise combine any sections entitled ``Acknowledgments'',
291and any sections entitled ``Dedications''. You must delete all sections
292entitled ``Endorsements.''
293
294@item
295COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
296
297You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
298released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
299License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
300the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
301verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
302
303You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
304it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
305License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
306other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
307
308@item
309AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
310
311A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
312and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
313distribution medium, does not as a whole count as a Modified Version
314of the Document, provided no compilation copyright is claimed for the
315compilation. Such a compilation is called an ``aggregate'', and this
316License does not apply to the other self-contained works thus compiled
317with the Document, on account of their being thus compiled, if they
318are not themselves derivative works of the Document.
319
320If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
321copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one quarter
322of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
323covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate.
324Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate.
325
326@item
327TRANSLATION
328
329Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
330distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
331Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
332permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
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338License, the original English version will prevail.
339
340@item
341TERMINATION
342
343You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
344as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
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349parties remain in full compliance.
350
351@item
352FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
353
354The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
355of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
356versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
357differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
358@uref{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/}.
359
360Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
361If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
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363following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
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365Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
366number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
367as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
368@end enumerate
369
370@page
371@appendixsubsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
372
373To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
374the License in the document and put the following copyright and
375license notices just after the title page:
376
377@smallexample
378@group
379 Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}.
380 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
381 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
382 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
383 with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with the
384 Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts being @var{list}.
385 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
386 Free Documentation License''.
387@end group
388@end smallexample
389
390If you have no Invariant Sections, write ``with no Invariant Sections''
391instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no
392Front-Cover Texts, write ``no Front-Cover Texts'' instead of
393``Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}''; likewise for Back-Cover Texts.
394
395If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
396recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
397free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
398to permit their use in free software.
399
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