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| 28397 | 1 @c -*-texinfo-*- |
| 30904 | 2 @node GNU Free Documentation License, GPL, Antinews, Top |
| 28397 | 3 |
| 4 @appendix GNU Free Documentation License | |
| 5 @center Version 1.1, March 2000 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 @display | |
| 8 Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
| 9 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | |
| 10 | |
| 11 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
| 12 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
| 13 @end display | |
| 29340 | 14 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 15 @enumerate 0 |
| 16 @item | |
| 17 PREAMBLE | |
| 18 | |
| 19 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other | |
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20 written document ``free'' in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone |
| 28397 | 21 the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without |
| 22 modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, | |
| 23 this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get | |
| 24 credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for | |
| 25 modifications made by others. | |
| 26 | |
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27 This License is a kind of ``copyleft'', which means that derivative |
| 28397 | 28 works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It |
| 29 complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft | |
| 30 license designed for free software. | |
| 31 | |
| 32 We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free | |
| 33 software, because free software needs free documentation: a free | |
| 34 program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the | |
| 35 software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals; | |
| 36 it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or | |
| 37 whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License | |
| 38 principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference. | |
| 39 | |
| 29340 | 40 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 41 @item |
| 42 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS | |
| 43 | |
| 44 This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a | |
| 45 notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed | |
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46 under the terms of this License. The ``Document'', below, refers to any |
| 28397 | 47 such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is |
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48 addressed as ``you''. |
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50 A ``Modified Version'' of the Document means any work containing the |
| 28397 | 51 Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with |
| 52 modifications and/or translated into another language. | |
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54 A ``Secondary Section'' is a named appendix or a front-matter section of |
| 28397 | 55 the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the |
| 56 publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject | |
| 57 (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly | |
| 58 within that overall subject. (For example, if the Document is in part a | |
| 59 textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any | |
| 60 mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical | |
| 61 connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal, | |
| 62 commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding | |
| 63 them. | |
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65 The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles |
| 28397 | 66 are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice |
| 67 that says that the Document is released under this License. | |
| 68 | |
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69 The ``Cover Texts'' are certain short passages of text that are listed, |
| 28397 | 70 as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that |
| 71 the Document is released under this License. | |
| 72 | |
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73 A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy, |
| 28397 | 74 represented in a format whose specification is available to the |
| 75 general public, whose contents can be viewed and edited directly and | |
| 76 straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of | |
| 77 pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available | |
| 78 drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or | |
| 79 for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input | |
| 80 to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file | |
| 81 format whose markup has been designed to thwart or discourage | |
| 82 subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. A copy that is | |
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83 not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque''. |
| 28397 | 84 |
| 85 Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain | |
| 86 ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML | |
| 87 or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple | |
| 88 HTML designed for human modification. Opaque formats include | |
| 89 PostScript, PDF, proprietary formats that can be read and edited only | |
| 90 by proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or | |
| 91 processing tools are not generally available, and the | |
| 92 machine-generated HTML produced by some word processors for output | |
| 93 purposes only. | |
| 94 | |
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95 The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself, |
| 28397 | 96 plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material |
| 97 this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in | |
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98 formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means |
| 28397 | 99 the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title, |
| 100 preceding the beginning of the body of the text. | |
| 29340 | 101 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 102 @item |
| 103 VERBATIM COPYING | |
| 104 | |
| 105 You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either | |
| 106 commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the | |
| 107 copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies | |
| 108 to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other | |
| 109 conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use | |
| 110 technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further | |
| 111 copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept | |
| 112 compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough | |
| 113 number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3. | |
| 114 | |
| 115 You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and | |
| 116 you may publicly display copies. | |
| 29340 | 117 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 118 @item |
| 119 COPYING IN QUANTITY | |
| 120 | |
| 121 If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than 100, | |
| 122 and the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose | |
| 123 the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover | |
| 124 Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on | |
| 125 the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify | |
| 126 you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present | |
| 127 the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and | |
| 128 visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition. | |
| 129 Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve | |
| 130 the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated | |
| 131 as verbatim copying in other respects. | |
| 132 | |
| 133 If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit | |
| 134 legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit | |
| 135 reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent | |
| 136 pages. | |
| 137 | |
| 138 If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering | |
| 139 more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent | |
| 140 copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy | |
| 141 a publicly-accessible computer-network location containing a complete | |
| 142 Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material, which the | |
| 143 general network-using public has access to download anonymously at no | |
| 144 charge using public-standard network protocols. If you use the latter | |
| 145 option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin | |
| 146 distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this | |
| 147 Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location | |
| 148 until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque | |
| 149 copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition to | |
| 150 the public. | |
| 151 | |
| 152 It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the | |
| 153 Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give | |
| 154 them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document. | |
| 29340 | 155 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 156 @item |
| 157 MODIFICATIONS | |
| 158 | |
| 159 You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under | |
| 160 the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release | |
| 161 the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified | |
| 162 Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution | |
| 163 and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy | |
| 164 of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version: | |
| 165 | |
| 166 A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct | |
| 167 from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions | |
| 168 (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section | |
| 169 of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version | |
| 170 if the original publisher of that version gives permission.@* | |
| 171 B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities | |
| 172 responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified | |
| 173 Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the | |
| 174 Document (all of its principal authors, if it has less than five).@* | |
| 175 C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the | |
| 176 Modified Version, as the publisher.@* | |
| 177 D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.@* | |
| 178 E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications | |
| 179 adjacent to the other copyright notices.@* | |
| 180 F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice | |
| 181 giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the | |
| 182 terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.@* | |
| 183 G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections | |
| 184 and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.@* | |
| 185 H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.@* | |
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186 I. Preserve the section entitled ``History'', and its title, and add to |
| 28397 | 187 it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and |
| 188 publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If | |
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189 there is no section entitled ``History'' in the Document, create one |
| 28397 | 190 stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as |
| 191 given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified | |
| 192 Version as stated in the previous sentence.@* | |
| 193 J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for | |
| 194 public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise | |
| 195 the network locations given in the Document for previous versions | |
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196 it was based on. These may be placed in the ``History'' section. |
| 28397 | 197 You may omit a network location for a work that was published at |
| 198 least four years before the Document itself, or if the original | |
| 199 publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.@* | |
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200 K. In any section entitled ``Acknowledgements'' or ``Dedications'', |
| 28397 | 201 preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the |
| 202 substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements | |
| 203 and/or dedications given therein.@* | |
| 204 L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, | |
| 205 unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers | |
| 206 or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.@* | |
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207 M. Delete any section entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section |
| 28397 | 208 may not be included in the Modified Version.@* |
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209 N. Do not retitle any existing section as ``Endorsements'' |
| 28397 | 210 or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.@* |
| 29340 | 211 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 212 If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or |
| 213 appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material | |
| 214 copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all | |
| 215 of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the | |
| 216 list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice. | |
| 217 These titles must be distinct from any other section titles. | |
| 218 | |
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219 You may add a section entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains |
| 28397 | 220 nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various |
| 221 parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text has | |
| 222 been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a | |
| 223 standard. | |
| 224 | |
| 225 You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a | |
| 226 passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list | |
| 227 of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of | |
| 228 Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or | |
| 229 through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already | |
| 230 includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or | |
| 231 by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of, | |
| 232 you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit | |
| 233 permission from the previous publisher that added the old one. | |
| 234 | |
| 235 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License | |
| 236 give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or | |
| 237 imply endorsement of any Modified Version. | |
| 29340 | 238 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 239 @item |
| 240 COMBINING DOCUMENTS | |
| 241 | |
| 242 You may combine the Document with other documents released under this | |
| 243 License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified | |
| 244 versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the | |
| 245 Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and | |
| 246 list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its | |
| 247 license notice. | |
| 248 | |
| 249 The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and | |
| 250 multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single | |
| 251 copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but | |
| 252 different contents, make the title of each such section unique by | |
| 253 adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original | |
| 254 author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number. | |
| 255 Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of | |
| 256 Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work. | |
| 257 | |
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258 In the combination, you must combine any sections entitled ``History'' |
| 28397 | 259 in the various original documents, forming one section entitled |
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260 ``History''; likewise combine any sections entitled ``Acknowledgements'', |
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261 and any sections entitled ``Dedications''. You must delete all sections |
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262 entitled ``Endorsements.'' |
| 29340 | 263 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 264 @item |
| 265 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS | |
| 266 | |
| 267 You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents | |
| 268 released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this | |
| 269 License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in | |
| 270 the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for | |
| 271 verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects. | |
| 272 | |
| 273 You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute | |
| 274 it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this | |
| 275 License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all | |
| 276 other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document. | |
| 29340 | 277 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 278 @item |
| 279 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS | |
| 280 | |
| 281 A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate | |
| 282 and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or | |
| 283 distribution medium, does not as a whole count as a Modified Version | |
| 284 of the Document, provided no compilation copyright is claimed for the | |
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285 compilation. Such a compilation is called an ``aggregate'', and this |
| 28397 | 286 License does not apply to the other self-contained works thus compiled |
| 287 with the Document, on account of their being thus compiled, if they | |
| 288 are not themselves derivative works of the Document. | |
| 289 | |
| 290 If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these | |
| 291 copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one quarter | |
| 292 of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on | |
| 293 covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate. | |
| 294 Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate. | |
| 29340 | 295 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 296 @item |
| 297 TRANSLATION | |
| 298 | |
| 299 Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may | |
| 300 distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4. | |
| 301 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special | |
| 302 permission from their copyright holders, but you may include | |
| 303 translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the | |
| 304 original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a | |
| 305 translation of this License provided that you also include the | |
| 306 original English version of this License. In case of a disagreement | |
| 307 between the translation and the original English version of this | |
| 308 License, the original English version will prevail. | |
| 29340 | 309 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 310 @item |
| 311 TERMINATION | |
| 312 | |
| 313 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except | |
| 314 as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to | |
| 315 copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will | |
| 316 automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, | |
| 317 parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this | |
| 318 License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such | |
| 319 parties remain in full compliance. | |
| 29340 | 320 @sp 1 |
| 28397 | 321 @item |
| 322 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE | |
| 323 | |
| 324 The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions | |
| 325 of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new | |
| 326 versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may | |
| 327 differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See | |
| 328 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/. | |
| 329 | |
| 330 Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number. | |
| 331 If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this | |
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332 License ``or any later version'' applies to it, you have the option of |
| 28397 | 333 following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or |
| 334 of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the | |
| 335 Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version | |
| 336 number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not | |
| 337 as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. | |
| 338 | |
| 339 @end enumerate | |
| 340 | |
| 341 @unnumberedsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents | |
| 342 | |
| 343 To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of | |
| 344 the License in the document and put the following copyright and | |
| 345 license notices just after the title page: | |
| 346 | |
| 347 @smallexample | |
| 348 @group | |
| 349 | |
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350 Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}. |
| 28397 | 351 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document |
| 352 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 | |
| 353 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; | |
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354 with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with the |
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355 Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts being @var{list}. |
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356 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU |
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357 Free Documentation License''. |
| 28397 | 358 @end group |
| 359 @end smallexample | |
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360 If you have no Invariant Sections, write ``with no Invariant Sections'' |
| 28397 | 361 instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no |
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362 Front-Cover Texts, write ``no Front-Cover Texts'' instead of |
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363 ``Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}''; likewise for Back-Cover Texts. |
| 28397 | 364 |
| 365 If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we | |
| 366 recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of | |
| 367 free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, | |
| 368 to permit their use in free software. |
