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1@c The GNU Free Documentation License.
2@center Version 1.2, November 2002
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4@c This file is intended to be included within another document,
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7@display
8Copyright @copyright{} 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
951 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
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11Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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16@item
17PREAMBLE
18
19The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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32We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
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129@item
130VERBATIM COPYING
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145@item
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183@item
184MODIFICATIONS
185
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193@enumerate A
194@item
195Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
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201@item
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203responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
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208@item
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212@item
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215@item
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228@item
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240@item
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249@item
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254
255@item
256Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
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266to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
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268@item
269Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
270@end enumerate
271
272If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
273appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
274copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
275of these sections as invariant.  To do this, add their titles to the
276list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
277These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
278
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280nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
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282been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
283standard.
284
285You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
286passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
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291by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
292you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
293permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
294
295The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
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299@item
300COMBINING DOCUMENTS
301
302You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
303License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
304versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
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306list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
307license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
308
309The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
310multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
311copy.  If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
312different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
313adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
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315Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
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318In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled ``History''
319in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
320``History''; likewise combine any sections Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
321and any sections Entitled ``Dedications''.  You must delete all
322sections Entitled ``Endorsements.''
323
324@item
325COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
326
327You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
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333You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
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337
338@item
339AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
340
341A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
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343distribution medium, is called an ``aggregate'' if the copyright
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349
350If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
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352the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
353covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
354electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.
355Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
356aggregate.
357
358@item
359TRANSLATION
360
361Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
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363Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
364permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
365translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
366original versions of these Invariant Sections.  You may include a
367translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
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369the original English version of this License and the original versions
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371the translation and the original version of this License or a notice
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373
374If a section in the Document is Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
375``Dedications'', or ``History'', the requirement (section 4) to Preserve
376its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
377title.
378
379@item
380TERMINATION
381
382You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
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389
390@item
391FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
392
393The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
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398
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407@end enumerate
408
409@page
410@heading ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
411
412To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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416@smallexample
417@group
418  Copyright (C)  @var{year}  @var{your name}.
419  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
420  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
421  or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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423  Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
424  Free Documentation License''.
425@end group
426@end smallexample
427
428If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
429replace the ``with@dots{}Texts.'' line with this:
430
431@smallexample
432@group
433    with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with
434    the Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts
435    being @var{list}.
436@end group
437@end smallexample
438
439If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
440combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
441situation.
442
443If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
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446to permit their use in free software.
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