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  GNU Free Documentation License
  
    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.
  
  
    0. PREAMBLE
  
  
    The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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    We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
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    1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
  
  
    This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that
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    2. VERBATIM COPYING
  
  
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        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
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        For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications", Preserve
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        Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered in
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    replace the old one, on explicit permission from the previous publisher
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    endorsement of any Modified Version.
  
  
    5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
  
  
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    parentheses, the name of the original author or publisher of that section
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    section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of
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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
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    6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
  
  
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    A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and
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    8. TRANSLATION
  
  
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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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    ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
  
  
    To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the
    License in the document and put the following copyright and license
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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 Free Documentation License".
If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, replace the "with...Texts." line with this:
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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 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.




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