GNU Free Documentation License
Version 1.1, March 2000
Copyright © 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple 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.
0. PREAMBLE
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.
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.
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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".
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
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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
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philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.
The "Invariant Sections" are certain
Secondary Sections whose titles are designated, as being those of
Invariant Sections, in the notice that says that the
Document is released under this
License.
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 Document
is released under this License.
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The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page
itself, plus such following pages as are
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works in formats which do not have any title page as such,
"Title Page" means the text near the most
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text.
2. VERBATIM COPYING
You may copy and distribute the 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
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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 section 3.
You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and you may publicly display copies.
3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
If you publish printed copies of the Document
numbering more than 100, and the Document's license notice
requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the copies in
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and legibly, all these Cover Texts:
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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
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 Opaque
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when you begin distribution of Opaque
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It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
Document well before
redistributing any large number of copies, to give them a chance to provide you with an updated
version of the Document.
4. MODIFICATIONS
You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the
Document under the conditions of sections
2 and 3
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 Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a
title distinct from that of the 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 Title Page, as authors,
one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of
the modifications in the Modified Version,
together with at least five of the principal
authors of the Document (all of its principal
authors, if it has less than five).
C
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publisher of the Modified Version, as the publisher.
D
Preserve all the copyright notices of the 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 Modified Version under the terms of this
License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
G
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Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts
given in the Document's 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 Modified Version
as given on the Title Page. If
there is no section entitled "History" in the 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
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for public access to a Transparent
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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 Invariant Sections of the
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
Modified Version.
N
Do not retitle any existing section as "Endorsements" or to conflict in title with any
Invariant Section.
If the Modified Version includes new front-matter
sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections
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
Invariant Sections 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
Modified Version 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 Front-Cover Text,
and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end
of the list of Cover Texts in the
Modified Version.
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 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 Document
do not by this License give permission to use their names
for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version
.
5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
You may combine the Document with other documents released
under this License, under the terms defined
in section 4 above for modified versions,
provided that you include in the
combination all of the Invariant Sections 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
Invariant Sections
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."
6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
You may make a collection consisting of the 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 distribute 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.
7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A compilation of the 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 Modified Version 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 Cover Text
requirement of section 3 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.
8. TRANSLATION
Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute translations of the
Document under the terms of
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Invariant Sections 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
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this License. In case of a disagreement between the translation and the original English
version of this License, the original English version will prevail.
9. TERMINATION
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10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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Addendum
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A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU
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If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
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