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GNU Free Documentation License
Version 1.3
, 3
November 2008
Copyright (C) 2000
, 2001
, 2002
, 2007
, 2008
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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0.
PREAMBLE
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License is to make a manual, textbook, or
other
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1.
APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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Document or
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Invariant Sections. If the Document does not
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The "Cover Texts"
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words, and
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Cover Text may be at most 25
words.
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,
"Dedications"
, "Endorsements"
, or
"History"
.) To "Preserve the Title"
of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
section "Entitled XYZ"
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2.
VERBATIM COPYING
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3.
COPYING IN QUANTITY
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the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
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It is requested, but not
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4.
MODIFICATIONS
You may copy and
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the conditions of sections 2
and
3
above, provided that you release
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Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
and
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of it. In addition, you must do
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A. Use in the Title Page (and
on the covers, if
any) a 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 title as a previous version
if
the original publisher of that version gives permission.
B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or
more persons or
entities
responsible 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 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 modifications
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F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
giving the public
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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
given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
Version as stated in the previous sentence.
J. Preserve the network location, if
any, given in the Document for
public
access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and
likewise
the network locations given in the Document 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
may not
be included in the Modified Version.
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
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License
give permission to use their names for
publicity for
or
to assert or
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
copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with 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
Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined 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
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that is included in the collection, provided that you follow the rules
of this
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other respects.
You may extract a single document from such a collection, and
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7.
AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A compilation of the Document or
its derivatives with other separate
and
independent documents or
works, in or
on a volume of a storage or
distribution medium, is called an "aggregate"
if
the copyright
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used to limit the legal rights
of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
When the Document is included in an aggregate, this
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themselves
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If the Cover Text requirement of section 3
is applicable to these
copies of the Document, then if
the Document is less than one half of
the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or
the
electronic equivalent of covers if
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Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
aggregate.
8.
TRANSLATION
Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires
special
permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
translations of some or
all Invariant Sections in addition to the
original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
translation of this
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all the license notices in the
Document, and
any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
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disclaimers. In case
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or
disclaimer, the original version will prevail.
If a section in the Document is Entitled "Acknowledgements"
,
"Dedications"
, or
"History"
, the requirement (section 4
) to Preserve
its Title (section 1
) will typically require changing the actual
title.
9.
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FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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An MMC is "eligible for relicensing"
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invariant sections, and
(2
) were thus incorporated prior to November 1
, 2008.
The operator
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under CC-
BY-
SA on the same site at any time before August 1
, 2009
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ADDENDUM
:
How to use this
License for
your documents
To use this
License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and
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or
modify this
document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-
Cover Texts, and
no Back-
Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License"
.
If you have Invariant Sections, Front-
Cover Texts and
Back-
Cover Texts,
replace the "with...Texts."
line with this
:
with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the
Front-
Cover Texts being LIST, and
with the Back-
Cover Texts being LIST.
If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or
some other
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situation.
If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
to permit their use in free software.