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     1 <appendix id="gfdl">
     2 <title>GNU Free Documentation License</title>
     3 <subtitle>Version 1.2, November 2002</subtitle>
     4 
     5 <blockquote id="fsf-copyright">
     6  <para>Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     7 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
     8 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
     9 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.</para>
    10 </blockquote>
    11 
    12 <section id="gfdl-0"><title>PREAMBLE</title>
    13 
    14 <para>The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or
    15 other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to
    16 assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with
    17 or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
    18 Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way
    19 to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for
    20 modifications made by others.</para>
    21 
    22 <para>This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
    23 works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense.  It
    24 complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license
    25 designed for free software.</para>
    26 
    27 <para>We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for
    28 free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
    29 program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
    30 software does.  But this License is not limited to software manuals; it
    31 can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
    32 whether it is published as a printed book.  We recommend this License
    33 principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.</para>
    34 </section>
    35 
    36 <section id="gfdl-1"><title>APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS</title>
    37 
    38 <para id="gfdl-doc">This License applies to any manual or other work, in
    39 any medium, that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying
    40 it can be distributed under the terms of this License.  Such a notice
    41 grants a world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use
    42 that work under the conditions stated herein.  The "Document", below,
    43 refers to any such manual or work.  Any member of the public is a
    44 licensee, and is addressed as "you".  You accept the license if you
    45 copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under
    46 copyright law.</para>
    47 
    48 <para id="gfdl-mod-ver">A "Modified Version" of the Document means any
    49 work containing the Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim,
    50 or with modifications and/or translated into another language.</para>
    51 
    52 <para id="gfdl-secnd-sect">A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or
    53 a front-matter section of the Document that deals exclusively with the
    54 relationship of the publishers or authors of the Document to the
    55 Document's overall subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing
    56 that could fall directly within that overall subject.  (Thus, if the
    57 Document is in part a textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may
    58 not explain any mathematics.)  The relationship could be a matter of
    59 historical connection with the subject or with related matters, or of
    60 legal, commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position
    61 regarding them.</para>
    62 
    63 <para id="gfdl-inv-sect">The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary
    64 Sections whose titles are designated, as being those of Invariant
    65 Sections, in the notice that says that the Document is released under
    66 this License.  If a section does not fit the above definition of
    67 Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as Invariant.  The
    68 Document may contain zero Invariant Sections.  If the Document does not
    69 identify any Invariant Sections then there are none.</para>
    70 
    71 <para id="gfdl-cov-text">The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of
    72 text that are listed, as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the
    73 notice that says that the Document is released under this License.  A
    74 Front-Cover Text may be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at
    75 most 25 words.</para>
    76 
    77 <para id="gfdl-transparent">A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a
    78 machine-readable copy, represented in a format whose specification is
    79 available to the general public, that is suitable for revising the
    80 document straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images
    81 composed of pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely
    82 available drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text
    83 formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable
    84 for input to text formatters.  A copy made in an otherwise Transparent
    85 file format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to
    86 thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not
    87 Transparent.  An image format is not Transparent if used for any
    88 substantial amount of text.  A copy that is not "Transparent" is called
    89 "Opaque".</para>
    90 
    91 <para>Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
    92 ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML or
    93 XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML,
    94 PostScript or PDF designed for human modification.  Examples of
    95 transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG.  Opaque formats
    96 include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
    97 proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or
    98 processing tools are not generally available, and the machine-generated
    99 HTML, PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for output
   100 purposes only.</para>
   101 
   102 <para id="gfdl-title-page">The "Title Page" means, for a printed book,
   103 the title page itself, plus such following pages as are needed to hold,
   104 legibly, the material this License requires to appear in the title page.
   105 For works in formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title
   106 Page" means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's
   107 title, preceding the beginning of the body of the text.</para>
   108 
   109 <para id="gfdl-entitled">A section "Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit
   110 of the Document whose title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in
   111 parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language.
   112 (Here XYZ stands for a specific section name mentioned below, such as
   113 "Acknowledgements", "Dedications", "Endorsements", or "History".)  To
   114 "Preserve the Title" of such a section when you modify the Document
   115 means that it remains a section "Entitled XYZ" according to this
   116 definition.</para>
   117 
   118 <para>The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice
   119 which states that this License applies to the Document.  These Warranty
   120 Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this License,
   121 but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other implication that
   122 these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has no effect on the
   123 meaning of this License.</para>
   124 </section>
   125 
   126 <section id="gfdl-2"><title>VERBATIM COPYING</title>
   127 
   128 <para>You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
   129 commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
   130 copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to
   131 the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
   132 conditions whatsoever to those of this License.  You may not use
   133 technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying
   134 of the copies you make or distribute.  However, you may accept
   135 compensation in exchange for copies.  If you distribute a large enough
   136 number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
   137 </para>
   138 
   139 <para>You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above,
   140 and you may publicly display copies.</para>
   141 </section>
   142 
   143 <section id="gfdl-3"><title>COPYING IN QUANTITY</title>
   144 
   145 <para>If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly
   146 have printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the
   147 Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the
   148 copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover Texts:
   149 Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on the back
   150 cover.  Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify you as the
   151 publisher of these copies.  The front cover must present the full title
   152 with all words of the title equally prominent and visible.  You may add
   153 other material on the covers in addition.  Copying with changes limited
   154 to the covers, as long as they preserve the title of the Document and
   155 satisfy these conditions, can be treated as verbatim copying in other
   156 respects.</para>
   157 
   158 <para>If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
   159 legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
   160 reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
   161 pages.</para>
   162 
   163 <para>If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document
   164 numbering more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable
   165 Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each
   166 Opaque copy a computer-network location from which the general
   167 network-using public has access to download using public-standard
   168 network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of
   169 added material.  If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably
   170 prudent steps, when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity,
   171 to ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the
   172 stated location until at least one year after the last time you
   173 distribute an Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers)
   174 of that edition to the public.</para>
   175 
   176 <para>It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of
   177 the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to
   178 give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the
   179 Document.</para>
   180 </section>
   181 
   182 <section id="gfdl-4"><title>MODIFICATIONS</title>
   183 
   184 <para>You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document
   185 under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you
   186 release the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the
   187 Modified Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing
   188 distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever
   189 possesses a copy of it.  In addition, you must do these things in the
   190 Modified Version:</para>
   191 
   192 <orderedlist id="gfdl-modif-cond" numeration="upperalpha">
   193 <listitem><simpara>Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a
   194   title distinct from that of the Document, and from those of previous
   195   versions (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History
   196   section of the Document).  You may use the same title as a previous
   197   version if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
   198 </simpara></listitem>
   199 <listitem><simpara>List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more
   200   persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in
   201   the Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal
   202   authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer
   203   than five), unless they release you from this requirement.
   204 </simpara></listitem>
   205 <listitem><simpara>State on the Title page the name of the publisher of
   206   the Modified Version, as the publisher.</simpara></listitem>
   207 <listitem><simpara>Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
   208 </simpara></listitem>
   209 <listitem><simpara>Add an appropriate copyright notice for your
   210   modifications adjacent to the other copyright notices.
   211 </simpara></listitem>
   212 <listitem><simpara>Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a
   213   license notice giving the public permission to use the Modified
   214   Version under the terms of this License, in the form shown in the
   215   <link linkend="gfdl-addendum">Addendum</link> below.
   216 </simpara></listitem>
   217 <listitem><simpara>Preserve in that license notice the full lists of
   218   Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document's
   219   license notice.</simpara></listitem>
   220 <listitem><simpara>Include an unaltered copy of this License.
   221 </simpara></listitem>
   222 <listitem><simpara>Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its
   223   Title, and add to it an item stating at least the title, year, new
   224   authors, and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title
   225   Page.  If there is no section Entitled "History" in the Document,
   226   create one stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the
   227   Document as given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the
   228   Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence.
   229 </simpara></listitem>
   230 <listitem><simpara>Preserve the network location, if any, given in the
   231   Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and
   232   likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous
   233   versions it was based on.  These may be placed in the "History"
   234   section.  You may omit a network location for a work that was
   235   published at least four years before the Document itself, or if the
   236   original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
   237 </simpara></listitem>
   238 <listitem><simpara>For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or
   239   "Dedications", Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the
   240   section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor
   241   acknowledgements and/or dedications given therein.
   242 </simpara></listitem>
   243 <listitem><simpara>Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
   244   unaltered in their text and in their titles.  Section numbers or the
   245   equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
   246 </simpara></listitem>
   247 <listitem><simpara>Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements".
   248   Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version.
   249 </simpara></listitem>
   250 <listitem><simpara>Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled
   251   "Endorsements" or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
   252 </simpara></listitem>
   253 <listitem><simpara>Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
   254 </simpara></listitem>
   255 </orderedlist>
   256 
   257 <para>If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
   258 appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
   259 copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
   260 of these sections as invariant.  To do this, add their titles to the
   261 list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
   262 These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.</para>
   263 
   264 <para>You may add a section Entitled "Endorsements", provided it
   265 contains nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
   266 parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
   267 been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
   268 standard.</para>
   269 
   270 <para>You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text,
   271 and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the
   272 list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version.  Only one passage of
   273 Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or through
   274 arrangements made by) any one entity.  If the Document already includes
   275 a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or by
   276 arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of, you may
   277 not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit permission
   278 from the previous publisher that added the old one.</para>
   279 
   280 <para>The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this
   281 License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to
   282 assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.</para>
   283 </section>
   284 
   285 <section id="gfdl-5"><title>COMBINING DOCUMENTS</title>
   286 
   287 <para>You may combine the Document with other documents released under
   288 this License, under the terms defined in <link linkend="gfdl-4">section
   289 4</link> above for modified versions, provided that you include in the
   290 combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original
   291 documents, unmodified, and list them all as Invariant Sections of your
   292 combined work in its license notice, and that you preserve all their
   293 Warranty Disclaimers.</para>
   294 
   295 <para>The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
   296 multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
   297 copy.  If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
   298 different contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding
   299 at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original author or
   300 publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.  Make the
   301 same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections
   302 in the license notice of the combined work.</para>
   303 
   304 <para>In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled
   305 "History" in the various original documents, forming one section
   306 Entitled "History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled
   307 "Acknowledgements", and any sections Entitled "Dedications".  You must
   308 delete all sections Entitled "Endorsements".</para>
   309 </section>
   310 
   311 <section id="gfdl-6"><title>COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS</title>
   312 
   313 <para>You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other
   314 documents released under this License, and replace the individual copies
   315 of this License in the various documents with a single copy that is
   316 included in the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this
   317 License for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other
   318 respects.</para>
   319 
   320 <para>You may extract a single document from such a collection, and
   321 distribute it individually under this License, provided you insert a
   322 copy of this License into the extracted document, and follow this
   323 License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that
   324 document.</para>
   325 </section>
   326 
   327 <section id="gfdl-7"><title>AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS</title>
   328 
   329 <para>A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other
   330 separate and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a
   331 storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the
   332 copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal
   333 rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works
   334 permit.  When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does
   335 not apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves
   336 derivative works of the Document.</para>
   337 
   338 <para>If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
   339 copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of
   340 the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on covers
   341 that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the electronic
   342 equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.  Otherwise
   343 they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
   344 aggregate.</para>
   345 </section>
   346 
   347 <section id="gfdl-8"><title>TRANSLATION</title>
   348 
   349 <para>Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
   350 distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
   351 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
   352 permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
   353 translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
   354 original versions of these Invariant Sections.  You may include a
   355 translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
   356 Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
   357 the original English version of this License and the original versions
   358 of those notices and disclaimers.  In case of a disagreement between the
   359 translation and the original version of this License or a notice or
   360 disclaimer, the original version will prevail.</para>
   361 
   362 <para>If a section in the Document is Entitled "Acknowledgements",
   363 "Dedications", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to Preserve its
   364 Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
   365 title.</para>
   366 </section>
   367 
   368 <section id="gfdl-9"><title>TERMINATION</title>
   369 
   370 <para>You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
   371 except as expressly provided for under this License.  Any other attempt
   372 to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
   373 automatically terminate your rights under this License.  However,
   374 parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License
   375 will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain
   376 in full compliance.</para>
   377 </section>
   378 
   379 <section id="gfdl-10"><title>FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE</title>
   380 
   381 <para>The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of
   382 the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time.  Such new versions
   383 will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in
   384 detail to address new problems or concerns.  See
   385 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.</para>
   386 
   387 <para>Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version
   388 number.  If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of
   389 this License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the option
   390 of following the terms and conditions either of that specified version
   391 or of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
   392 Free Software Foundation.  If the Document does not specify a version
   393 number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
   394 as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.</para>
   395 </section>
   396 
   397 <section id="gfdl-addendum"><title>ADDENDUM: How to use this License for
   398   your documents</title>
   399 
   400 <para>To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy
   401 of the License in the document and put the following copyright and
   402 license notices just after the title page:</para>
   403 
   404 <blockquote id="copyright-sample"><para>
   405     Copyright (c)  YEAR  YOUR NAME.
   406     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
   407     under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
   408     or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
   409     with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
   410     A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
   411     Free Documentation License".
   412 </para></blockquote>
   413 
   414 <para>If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover
   415 Texts, replace the "with...Texts." line with this:</para>
   416 
   417 <blockquote id="inv-cover-sample"><para>
   418     with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the
   419     Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST.
   420 </para></blockquote>
   421 
   422 <para>If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
   423 combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
   424 situation.</para>
   425 
   426 <para>If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
   427 recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free
   428 software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit
   429 their use in free software.</para>
   430 </section>
   431 </appendix>