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| GNU Free Documentation License |
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| .. _fdl-preamble: |
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| 0. PREAMBLE |
| =========== |
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| The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other |
| written 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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| .. _fdl-section1: |
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| 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS |
| ================================ |
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| .. _fdl-document: |
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| This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a notice |
| placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the |
| terms of this License. The “Document”, below, refers to any such manual |
| or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as |
| “you”. |
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| |
| .. _fdl-modified: |
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| A “Modified Version” of the Document means any work containing the |
| Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with |
| modifications and/or translated into another language. |
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| .. _fdl-secondary: |
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| A “Secondary Section” is a named appendix or a front-matter section of |
| the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` that deals exclusively with the |
| relationship of the publishers or authors of the Document to the |
| Document's overall subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing |
| that could fall directly within that overall subject. (For example, if |
| the Document is in part a textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section |
| may not explain any mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of |
| historical connection with the subject or with related matters, or of |
| legal, commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position |
| regarding them. |
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| .. _fdl-invariant: |
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| The “Invariant Sections” are certain |
| :ref:`Secondary Sections <fdl-secondary>` whose titles are designated, |
| as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice that says that the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` is released under this License. |
| |
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| .. _fdl-cover-texts: |
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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 |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` is released under this License. |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-transparent: |
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| A “Transparent” copy of the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` means a |
| machine-readable copy, represented in a format whose specification is |
| available to the general public, whose contents can be viewed and edited |
| directly and straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images |
| composed of pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely |
| available drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text |
| formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable |
| for input to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent |
| file format whose markup has been designed to thwart or discourage |
| subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. A copy that is |
| not “Transparent” is called “Opaque”. |
| |
| Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII |
| without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML or XML |
| using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML |
| designed for human modification. Opaque formats include PostScript, PDF, |
| proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word |
| processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools are |
| not generally available, and the machine-generated HTML produced by some |
| word processors for output purposes only. |
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| |
| .. _fdl-title-page: |
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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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| |
| .. _fdl-section2: |
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| 2. VERBATIM COPYING |
| =================== |
| |
| You may copy and distribute the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` in any |
| medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this |
| License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this |
| License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that |
| you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may |
| not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further |
| copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept |
| compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough |
| number of copies you must also follow the conditions in |
| :ref:`section 3 <fdl-section3>`. |
| |
| You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and |
| you may publicly display copies. |
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| |
| .. _fdl-section3: |
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| 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY |
| ====================== |
| |
| If you publish printed copies of the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` |
| numbering more than 100, and the Document's license notice requires |
| :ref:`Cover Texts <fdl-cover-texts>`, you must enclose the copies in |
| covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover 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 |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` and satisfy these conditions, can be |
| treated as verbatim copying in other respects. |
| |
| 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 |
| pages. |
| |
| If you publish or distribute :ref:`Opaque <fdl-transparent>` copies of |
| the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` numbering more than 100, you must |
| either include a machine-readable :ref:`Transparent <fdl-transparent>` |
| copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy a |
| publicly-accessible computer-network location containing a complete |
| Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material, which the |
| general network-using public has access to download anonymously at no |
| charge using public-standard network protocols. If you use the latter |
| option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin |
| distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this |
| Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location |
| until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque |
| copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition to |
| the public. |
| |
| It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` well before redistributing any large |
| number of copies, to give them a chance to provide you with an updated |
| version of the Document. |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-section4: |
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| 4. MODIFICATIONS |
| ================ |
| |
| You may copy and distribute a :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>` |
| of the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` under the conditions of sections |
| :ref:`2 <fdl-section2>` and :ref:`3 <fdl-section3>` 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: |
| |
| - **A.** |
| Use in the :ref:`Title Page <fdl-title-page>` (and on the covers, |
| if any) a title distinct from that of the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-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 :ref:`Title Page <fdl-title-page>`, as authors, one or |
| more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the |
| modifications in the :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>`, |
| together with at least five of the principal authors of the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` (all of its principal authors, if it |
| has less than five). |
| |
| - **C.** |
| State on the :ref:`Title Page <fdl-title-page>` the name of the |
| publisher of the :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>`, as the |
| publisher. |
| |
| - **D.** |
| Preserve all the copyright notices of the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-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 |
| :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>` under the terms of this |
| License, in the form shown in the Addendum below. |
| |
| - **G.** |
| Preserve in that license notice the full lists of |
| :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>` and required |
| :ref:`Cover Texts <fdl-cover-texts>` given in the |
| :ref:`Document's <fdl-document>` license notice. |
| |
| - **H.** |
| Include an unaltered copy of this License. |
| |
| - **I.** |
| Preserve the section entitled “History”, and its title, and add to it |
| an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and publisher |
| of the :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>` as given on the |
| :ref:`Title Page <fdl-title-page>`. If there is no section entitled |
| “History” in the :ref:`Document <fdl-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 |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` for public access to a |
| :ref:`Transparent <fdl-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.** |
| In any section entitled “Acknowledgements” or “Dedications”, preserve |
| the section's title, 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 :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>` of the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-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 :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>`. |
| |
| - **N.** |
| Do not retitle any existing section as “Endorsements” or to conflict |
| in title with any :ref:`Invariant Section <fdl-invariant>`. |
| |
| If the :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>` includes new |
| front-matter sections or appendices that qualify as |
| :ref:`Secondary Sections <fdl-secondary>` 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 :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>` 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 |
| :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>` 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 |
| :ref:`Front-Cover Text <fdl-cover-texts>`, and a passage of up to 25 |
| words as a :ref:`Back-Cover Text <fdl-cover-texts>`, to the end of the |
| list of :ref:`Cover Texts <fdl-cover-texts>` in the |
| :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>`. 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 |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-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 :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` |
| do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity |
| for or to assert or imply endorsement of any |
| :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>`. |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-section5: |
| |
| 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS |
| ====================== |
| |
| You may combine the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` with other |
| documents released under this License, under the terms defined in |
| :ref:`section 4 <fdl-section4>` above for modified versions, provided |
| that you include in the combination all of the |
| :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>` of all of the original |
| documents, unmodified, and list them all as Invariant Sections of your |
| combined work in its license notice. |
| |
| The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and |
| multiple identical :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>` 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.” |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-section6: |
| |
| 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS |
| =========================== |
| |
| You may make a collection consisting of the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-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. |
| |
| You may extract a single document from such a collection, and dispbibute |
| 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. |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-section7: |
| |
| 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS |
| ===================================== |
| |
| A compilation of the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` or its derivatives |
| with other separate and independent documents or works, in or on a |
| volume of a storage or distribution medium, does not as a whole count as |
| a :ref:`Modified Version <fdl-modified>` of the Document, provided no |
| compilation copyright is claimed for the compilation. Such a compilation |
| is called an “aggregate”, and this License does not apply to the other |
| self-contained works thus compiled with the Document , on account of |
| their being thus compiled, if they are not themselves derivative works |
| of the Document. If the :ref:`Cover Text <fdl-cover-texts>` |
| requirement of :ref:`section 3 <fdl-section3>` is applicable to these |
| copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one quarter of |
| the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on covers |
| that surround only the Document within the aggregate. Otherwise they |
| must appear on covers around the whole aggregate. |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-section8: |
| |
| 8. TRANSLATION |
| ============== |
| |
| Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute |
| translations of the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` under the terms of |
| :ref:`section 4 <fdl-section4>`. Replacing |
| :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>` 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 provided that you also include the original |
| English version of this License. In case of a disagreement between the |
| translation and the original English version of this License, the |
| original English version will prevail. |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-section9: |
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| 9. TERMINATION |
| ============== |
| |
| You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the |
| :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` except as expressly provided for under |
| this License. Any other attempt to copy, modify, sublicense or |
| distribute the Document is void, and will automatically terminate your |
| rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or |
| rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses |
| terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. |
| |
| |
| .. _fdl-section10: |
| |
| 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE |
| ==================================== |
| |
| The `Free Software Foundation <http://www.gnu.org/fsf/fsf.html>`__ |
| 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 differ in detail to address new problems or |
| concerns. See |
| `http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft>`__. |
| |
| Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number. If |
| the :ref:`Document <fdl-document>` specifies that a particular |
| numbered version of this License “or any later version” applies to it, |
| you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that |
| specified version or of any later version that has been published (not |
| as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not |
| specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version |
| ever published (not as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. |
| |
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| .. _fdl-using: |
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| Addendum |
| ======== |
| |
| 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 |
| notices just after the title page: |
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| Copyright © YEAR YOUR NAME. |
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| Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this |
| document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, |
| Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software |
| Foundation; with the :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>` |
| being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the |
| :ref:`Front-Cover Texts <fdl-cover-texts>` being LIST, and with |
| the :ref:`Back-Cover Texts <fdl-cover-texts>` being LIST. A copy |
| of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free |
| Documentation License”. |
| |
| If you have no :ref:`Invariant Sections <fdl-invariant>`, write “with |
| no Invariant Sections” instead of saying which ones are invariant. If |
| you have no :ref:`Front-Cover Texts <fdl-cover-texts>`, write “no |
| Front-Cover Texts” instead of “Front-Cover Texts being LIST”; likewise |
| for :ref:`Back-Cover Texts <fdl-cover-texts>`. |
| |
| If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we |
| recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free |
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| `GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>`__, |
| to permit their use in free software. |