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- GNU Free Documentation License
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- Version 1.2, November 2002
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- Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin St,
- Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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- Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license
- document, but changing it is not allowed.
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- 0. PREAMBLE
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- 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
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- being considered responsible for modifications made by others.
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- This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of
- the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the
- GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free
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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 whether it is published as a printed
- book. We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction
- or reference.
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- 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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