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| GNU Free Documentation License |
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| Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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| Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies |
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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 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, in any medium, that |
| contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be |
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| refers to any such manual or work. Any member of the public is a |
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| under copyright law. |
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| A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the |
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| A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of |
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| textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any |
| mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical |
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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. If a |
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| allowed to be designated as Invariant. The Document may contain zero |
| Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant |
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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. A Front-Cover Text may |
| be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words. |
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| A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy, |
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| or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. |
| An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount |
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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 requires to appear in the title page. For works in |
| formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means |
| the text near the most prominent appearance of the work`s title, |
| preceding the beginning of the body of the text. |
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| A section "Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit of the Document whose |
| title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following |
| text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a |
| specific section name mentioned below, such as "Acknowledgements", |
| "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" according to this definition. |
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| The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which |
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| Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this |
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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 |
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| You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and |
| you may publicly display copies. |
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| 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY |
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| If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have |
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| Document`s license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the |
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| Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on |
| the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify |
| you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present |
| the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and |
| visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition. |
| Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve |
| the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated |
| as verbatim copying in other respects. |
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| If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit |
| legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit |
| reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent |
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| If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering |
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| If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, |
| when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure |
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| It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the |
| Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give |
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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 under precisely this License, with the Modified |
| Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution |
| and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy |
| of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version: |
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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 |
| adjacent to the other copyright notices. |
| F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice |
| giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License |
| give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or |
| imply endorsement of any Modified Version. |
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| 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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". |
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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 under this License, and replace the individual copies of this |
| License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in |
| the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for |
| verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects. |
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| You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute |
| it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this |
| License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all |
| other respects 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 documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or |
| distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the copyright |
| resulting from the compilation is not 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 License does not |
| apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves |
| derivative works of the Document. |
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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 the Document is in electronic form. |
| Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole |
| aggregate. |
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| 8. TRANSLATION |
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| 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 License, and all the license notices in the |
| Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include |
| the original English version of this License and the original versions |
| of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between |
| the translation and the original version of this License or a notice |
| or disclaimer, the original version will prevail. |
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| 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. |
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| 9. TERMINATION |
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| You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except |
| as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to |
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| automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, |
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| 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE |
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| The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions |
| of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new |
| versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may |
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| ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents |
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| 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/or modify this document |
| under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 |
| 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 |
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| If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, |
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| with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the |
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| If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other |
| combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the |
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| If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we |
| recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of |
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| to permit their use in free software. |
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