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GNU Free Documentation License
Version 1.2, November 2002
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation,
Inc. 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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PREAMBLE
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
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not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.
This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that
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the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License,
which is a copyleft license designed for free software.
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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APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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The "Document", below, refers to any such manual or work.
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A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing
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VERBATIM COPYING
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COPYING IN QUANTITY
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MODIFICATIONS
You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
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Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
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(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.
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entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the
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authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has
fewer than five), unless they release you from this requirement.
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of the Modified Version, as the publisher.
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Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
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Add an appropriate copyright notice for your
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terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
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Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
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Include an unaltered copy of this License.
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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
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describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence.
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for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements". Such a
section may not be included in the Modified Version.
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Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled "Endorsements"
or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
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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 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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COMBINING DOCUMENTS
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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".
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COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
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,
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copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
You may extract a single document from such a collection,
and distribute it individually under this License,
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respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
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AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
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aggregate which are not themselves derivative works of the Document.
If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to
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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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TRANSLATION
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permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
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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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TERMINATION
You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
except as expressly provided for under this License. Any other
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is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under
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terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
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