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4 \chapter{GNU Free Documentation License
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39 \section{APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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104 The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
105 plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
106 this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
107 formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
108 the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
109 preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
111 A section ``Entitled XYZ'' means a named subunit of the Document whose
112 title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
113 text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a
114 specific section name mentioned below, such as ``Acknowledgements'',
115 ``Dedications'', ``Endorsements'', or ``History''.) To ``Preserve the Title''
116 of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
117 section ``Entitled XYZ'' according to this definition.
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127 \section{VERBATIM COPYING
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130 You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
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137 compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough
138 number of copies you must also follow the conditions in
139 section~
\ref{copying
}.
141 You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
142 you may publicly display copies.
145 \section{COPYING IN QUANTITY
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148 If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have
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153 the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
154 you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
155 the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
156 visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
157 Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
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166 If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
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184 \section{MODIFICATIONS
}
185 \label{modifications
}
187 You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
188 the conditions of sections~
\ref{verbatim
} and
\ref{copying
} above,
189 provided that you release
190 the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
191 Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
192 and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
193 of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
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197 \item Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
198 from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions
199 (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
200 of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version
201 if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
202 \item List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
203 responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
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205 Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five),
206 unless they release you from this requirement.
207 \item State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
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209 \item Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
210 \item Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
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213 giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the
214 terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
215 \item Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
216 and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
217 \item Include an unaltered copy of this License.
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219 to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
220 publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
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222 stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
223 given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
224 Version as stated in the previous sentence.
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226 public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
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228 it was based on. These may be placed in the ``History'' section.
229 You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
230 least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
231 publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
232 \item For any section Entitled ``Acknowledgements'' or ``Dedications'',
233 Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all
234 the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements
235 and/or dedications given therein.
236 \item Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
237 unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
238 or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
239 \item Delete any section Entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section
240 may not be included in the Modified Version.
241 \item Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled ``Endorsements''
242 or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
243 \item Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
247 If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
248 appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
249 copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
250 of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
251 list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
252 These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
254 You may add a section Entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains
255 nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
256 parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
257 been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
260 You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
261 passage of up to
25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
262 of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
263 Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
264 through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
265 includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
266 by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
267 you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
268 permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
270 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
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272 imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
275 \section{COMBINING DOCUMENTS
}
278 You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
279 License, under the terms defined in section~
\ref{modifications
}
281 versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
282 Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
283 list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
284 license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
286 The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
287 multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
288 copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
289 different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
290 adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
291 author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
292 Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
293 Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
295 In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled ``History''
296 in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
297 ``History''; likewise combine any sections Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
298 and any sections Entitled ``Dedications''. You must delete all sections
299 Entitled ``Endorsements''.
302 \section{COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
}
305 You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
306 released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
307 License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
308 the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
309 verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
311 You may extract a single
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314 other respects regarding verbatim copying of that
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317 \section{AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
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320 A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
321 and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
322 distribution medium, is called an ``aggregate'' if the copyright
323 resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights
324 of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
325 When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not
326 apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves
327 derivative works of the Document.
329 If the Cover Text requirement of section~
\ref{copying
} is applicable to
330 these copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half
331 of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
332 covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
333 electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.
334 Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
338 \section{TRANSLATION
}
341 Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
342 distribute translations of the Document under the terms of
343 section~
\ref{modifications
}.
344 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
345 permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
346 translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
347 original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
348 translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
349 Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
350 the original English version of this License and the original versions
351 of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between
352 the translation and the original version of this License or a notice
353 or disclaimer, the original version will prevail.
355 If a section in the Document is Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
356 ``Dedications'', or ``History'', the requirement
357 (section~
\ref{modifications
}) to Preserve
358 its Title (section~
\ref{applicability
}) will typically require
359 changing the actual title.
362 \section{TERMINATION
}
365 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
366 as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
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368 automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
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371 parties remain in full compliance.
374 \section{FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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377 The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
378 of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
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390 as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
393 \section*
{ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
}
395 To use this License in a
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400 Copyright
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401 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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402 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2
403 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
404 with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
405 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
406 Free Documentation License''.
409 If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
410 replace the ``with...Texts.'' line with this:
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413 Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST.
415 If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
416 combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
419 If your
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420 recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
421 free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
422 to permit their use in free software.