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Appendix C. GNU Free Documentation License

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Appendix C. GNU Free Documentation License

Version 1.2, November 2002

Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy

and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not

allowed.

PREAMBLE

The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful

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.

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.

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.

APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that contains a notice

placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this License.

Such a notice grants a world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that

work under the conditions stated herein. The "Document", below, refers to any such manual

or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as "you". You accept the

license if you copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under

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.

A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of the 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. (Thus, if the Document is in part a textbook of