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- GNU Free Documentation License
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- Version 1.1, March 2000
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- Copyright (C) 2000 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
-
- The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other written
- 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.
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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
- software.
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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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- This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a notice placed
- by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this
- License. The "Document", below, refers to any such manual or work. Any member
- of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as "you".
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- A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the Document
- or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with modifications and/or translated
- into another language.
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- A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of the
- Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the publishers or
- authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject (or to related matters)
- and contains nothing that could fall directly within that overall subject.
- (For example, if the Document is in part a textbook of mathematics, a Secondary
- Section may not explain any mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter
- of historical connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
- commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.
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- The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose titles are designated,
- as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice that says that the Document
- is released under this License.
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- The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are listed, as Front-Cover
- Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that the Document is released
- under this License.
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- The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself, plus such
- following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material this License
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- any title page as such, "Title Page" means the text near the most prominent
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- 2. VERBATIM COPYING
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- You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially
- or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and
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- 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
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- If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than 100, and
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- The front cover must present the full title with all words of the title equally
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- Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve the title
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- If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when
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- well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give them a chance
- to provide you with an updated version of the Document.
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- 4. MODIFICATIONS
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- You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions
- of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release the Modified Version
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- there were any, be listed in the History section of the Document). You may
- use the same title as a previous version if the original publisher of that
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- for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with
- at least five of the principal authors of the Document (all of its principal
- authors, if it has less than five).
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- as the publisher.
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- 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
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- You may add a section entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains nothing
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- as the authoritative definition of a standard.
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- in the Modified Version. Only one passage of Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover
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- 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
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- 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
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- parentheses, the name of the original author or publisher of that section
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- 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."
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- 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
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- You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents released
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- that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of
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- regarding verbatim copying of that document.
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- 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
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- A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent
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- does not as a whole count as a Modified Version of the Document, provided
- no compilation copyright is claimed for the compilation. Such a compilation
- is called an "aggregate", and this License does not apply to the other self-contained
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- if they are not themselves derivative works of the Document.
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- aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on covers that surround
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- around the whole aggregate.
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- prevail.
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- You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except as
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- The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of the GNU
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- in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new
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