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1 Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License
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1 Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
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1 Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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1 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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1 0. PREAMBLE
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1 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
1 functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to
1 assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
1 with or without modifying it, either commercially or
1 noncommercially. Secondarily, this License preserves for the
1 author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not
1 being considered responsible for modifications made by others.
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1 This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
1 works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense.
1 It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
1 license designed for free software.
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1 We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for
1 free software, because free software needs free documentation: a
1 free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms
1 that the software does. But this License is not limited to
1 software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless
1 of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book.
1 We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is
1 instruction or reference.
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1 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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1 This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium,
1 that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it
1 can be distributed under the terms of this License. Such a notice
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1 to use that work under the conditions stated herein. The
1 "Document", below, refers to any such manual or work. Any member
1 of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as "you". You
1 accept the license if you copy, modify or distribute the work in a
1 way requiring permission under copyright law.
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1 A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
1 Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
1 modifications and/or translated into another language.
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1 A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section
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1 The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose
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1 Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as Invariant.
1 The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If the Document
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1 The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are
1 listed, as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice
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1 Front-Cover Text may be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may
1 be at most 25 words.
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1 A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
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1 produced by some word processors for output purposes only.
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1 The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
1 plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the
1 material this License requires to appear in the title page. For
1 works in formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title
1 Page" means the text near the most prominent appearance of the
1 work's title, preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
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1 The "publisher" means any person or entity that distributes copies
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1 A section "Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit of the Document
1 whose title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses
1 following text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ
1 stands for a specific section name mentioned below, such as
1 "Acknowledgements", "Dedications", "Endorsements", or "History".)
1 To "Preserve the Title" of such a section when you modify the
1 Document means that it remains a section "Entitled XYZ" according
1 to this definition.
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1 The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice
1 which states that this License applies to the Document. These
1 Warranty Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in
1 this License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other
1 implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and
1 has no effect on the meaning of this License.
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1 2. VERBATIM COPYING
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1 You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
1 commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
1 copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License
1 applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you
1 add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You
1 may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading
1 or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. However,
1 you may accept compensation in exchange for copies. If you
1 distribute a large enough number of copies you must also follow
1 the conditions in section 3.
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1 You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above,
1 and you may publicly display copies.
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1 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
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1 If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly
1 have printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and
1 the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must
1 enclose the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all
1 these Cover Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and
1 Back-Cover Texts on the back cover. Both covers must also clearly
1 and legibly identify you as the publisher of these copies. The
1 front cover must present the full title with all words of the
1 title equally prominent and visible. You may add other material
1 on the covers in addition. Copying with changes limited to the
1 covers, as long as they preserve the title of the Document and
1 satisfy these conditions, can be treated as verbatim copying in
1 other respects.
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1 If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
1 legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
1 reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto
1 adjacent pages.
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1 If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document
1 numbering more than 100, you must either include a
1 machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or
1 state in or with each Opaque copy a computer-network location from
1 which the general network-using public has access to download
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1 copy of the Document, free of added material. If you use the
1 latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you
1 begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that
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1 distribute an Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or
1 retailers) of that edition to the public.
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1 It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of
1 the Document well before redistributing any large number of
1 copies, to give them a chance to provide you with an updated
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1 4. MODIFICATIONS
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1 You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document
1 under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you
1 release the Modified Version under precisely this License, with
1 the Modified Version filling the role of the Document, thus
1 licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to
1 whoever possesses a copy of it. In addition, you must do these
1 things in the Modified Version:
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1 A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title
1 distinct from that of the Document, and from those of
1 previous versions (which should, if there were any, be listed
1 in the History section of the Document). You may use the
1 same title as a previous version if the original publisher of
1 that version gives permission.
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1 B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or
1 entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in
1 the Modified Version, together with at least five of the
1 principal authors of the Document (all of its principal
1 authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you
1 from this requirement.
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1 C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
1 Modified Version, as the publisher.
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1 D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
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1 E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
1 adjacent to the other copyright notices.
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1 F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license
1 notice giving the public permission to use the Modified
1 Version under the terms of this License, in the form shown in
1 the Addendum below.
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1 G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant
1 Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document's
1 license notice.
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1 H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
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1 I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title,
1 and add to it an item stating at least the title, year, new
1 authors, and publisher of the Modified Version as given on
1 the Title Page. If there is no section Entitled "History" in
1 the Document, create one stating the title, year, authors,
1 and publisher of the Document as given on its Title Page,
1 then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in
1 the previous sentence.
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1 J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document
1 for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and
1 likewise the network locations given in the Document for
1 previous versions it was based on. These may be placed in
1 the "History" section. You may omit a network location for a
1 work that was published at least four years before the
1 Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version
1 it refers to gives permission.
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1 K. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",
1 Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the
1 section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor
1 acknowledgements and/or dedications given therein.
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1 L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
1 unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
1 or the equivalent are not considered part of the section
1 titles.
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1 M. Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements". Such a section
1 may not be included in the Modified Version.
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1 N. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled
1 "Endorsements" or to conflict in title with any Invariant
1 Section.
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1 O. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
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1 If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
1 appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no
1 material copied from the Document, you may at your option
1 designate some or all of these sections as invariant. To do this,
1 add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modified
1 Version's license notice. These titles must be distinct from any
1 other section titles.
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1 You may add a section Entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains
1 nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
1 parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text
1 has been approved by an organization as the authoritative
1 definition of a standard.
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1 You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text,
1 and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end
1 of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one
1 passage of Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be
1 added by (or through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the
1 Document already includes a cover text for the same cover,
1 previously added by you or by arrangement made by the same entity
1 you are acting on behalf of, you may not add another; but you may
1 replace the old one, on explicit permission from the previous
1 publisher that added the old one.
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1 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this
1 License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to
1 assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
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1 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
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1 You may combine the Document with other documents released under
1 this License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for
1 modified versions, provided that you include in the combination
1 all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents,
1 unmodified, and list them all as Invariant Sections of your
1 combined work in its license notice, and that you preserve all
1 their Warranty Disclaimers.
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1 The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
1 multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
1 copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name
1 but different contents, make the title of each such section unique
1 by adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the
1 original author or publisher of that section if known, or else a
1 unique number. Make the same adjustment to the section titles in
1 the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of the
1 combined work.
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1 In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled
1 "History" in the various original documents, forming one section
1 Entitled "History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled
1 "Acknowledgements", and any sections Entitled "Dedications". You
1 must delete all sections Entitled "Endorsements."
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1 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
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1 You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other
1 documents released under this License, and replace the individual
1 copies of this License in the various documents with a single copy
1 that is included in the collection, provided that you follow the
1 rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of the
1 documents in all other respects.
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1 You may extract a single document from such a collection, and
1 distribute it individually under this License, provided you insert
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1 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
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1 A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other
1 separate and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of
1 a storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the
1 copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the
1 legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual
1 works permit. When the Document is included in an aggregate, this
1 License does not apply to the other works in the aggregate which
1 are not themselves derivative works of the Document.
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1 If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
1 copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half
1 of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed
1 on covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
1 electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic
1 form. Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket
1 the whole aggregate.
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1 8. TRANSLATION
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1 Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
1 distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section
1 4. Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
1 permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
1 translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
1 original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
1 translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
1 Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also
1 include the original English version of this License and the
1 original versions of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a
1 disagreement between the translation and the original version of
1 this License or a notice or disclaimer, the original version will
1 prevail.
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1 If a section in the Document is Entitled "Acknowledgements",
1 "Dedications", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to
1 Preserve its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the
1 actual title.
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1 9. TERMINATION
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1 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
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1 otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute it is void,
1 and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
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1 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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1 The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of
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1 11. RELICENSING
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1 "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site" (or "MMC Site") means any
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1 "Incorporate" means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
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1 to November 1, 2008.
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1 The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the
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1 2009, provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.
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1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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1 To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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