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1 @c -*-texinfo-*-
2 @node GNU Free Documentation License, Emacs Invocation, Copying, Top
3 @appendix GNU Free Documentation License
4 @center Version 1.2, November 2002
5
6 @display
7 Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
8 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
9
10 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
11 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
12 @end display
13 @sp 1
14 @enumerate 0
15 @item
16 PREAMBLE
17
18 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
19 functional and useful document ``free'' in the sense of freedom: to
20 assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
21 with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
22 Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way
23 to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible
24 for modifications made by others.
25
26 This License is a kind of ``copyleft'', which means that derivative
27 works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
28 complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
29 license designed for free software.
30
31 We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
32 software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
33 program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
34 software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals;
35 it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
36 whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
37 principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
38
39 @sp 1
40 @item
41 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
42
43 This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that
44 contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be
45 distributed under the terms of this License. Such a notice grants a
46 world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that
47 work under the conditions stated herein. The ``Document'', below,
48 refers to any such manual or work. Any member of the public is a
49 licensee, and is addressed as ``you''. You accept the license if you
50 copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission
51 under copyright law.
52
53 A ``Modified Version'' of the Document means any work containing the
54 Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
55 modifications and/or translated into another language.
56
57 A ``Secondary Section'' is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
58 the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
59 publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
60 (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
61 within that overall subject. (Thus, if the Document is in part a
62 textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
63 mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
64 connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
65 commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
66 them.
67
68 The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
69 are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
70 that says that the Document is released under this License. If a
71 section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not
72 allowed to be designated as Invariant. The Document may contain zero
73 Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant
74 Sections then there are none.
75
76 The ``Cover Texts'' are certain short passages of text that are listed,
77 as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that
78 the Document is released under this License. A Front-Cover Text may
79 be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words.
80
81 A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
82 represented in a format whose specification is available to the
83 general public, that is suitable for revising the document
84 straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of
85 pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available
86 drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or
87 for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input
88 to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file
89 format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart
90 or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent.
91 An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount
92 of text. A copy that is not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque.''
93
94
95 Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
96 ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML
97 or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple
98 HTML, PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples of
99 transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG. Opaque formats
100 include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
101 proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or
102 processing tools are not generally available, and the
103 machine-generated HTML, PostScript or PDF produced by some word
104 processors for output purposes only.
105
106 The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
107 plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
108 this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
109 formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
110 the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
111 preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
112
113 A section ``Entitled XYZ'' means a named subunit of the Document whose
114 title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
115 text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a
116 specific section name mentioned below, such as ``Acknowledgements'',
117 ``Dedications'', ``Endorsements'', or ``History''.) To ``Preserve the Title''
118 of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
119 section ``Entitled XYZ'' according to this definition.
120
121 The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which
122 states that this License applies to the Document. These Warranty
123 Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this
124 License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other
125 implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has
126 no effect on the meaning of this License.
127 @sp 1
128 @item
129 VERBATIM COPYING
130
131 You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
132 commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
133 copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
134 to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
135 conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use
136 technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
137 copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept
138 compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough
139 number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
140
141 You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
142 you may publicly display copies.
143 @sp 1
144 @item
145 COPYING IN QUANTITY
146
147 If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have
148 printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the
149 Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the
150 copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
151 Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
152 the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
153 you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
154 the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
155 visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
156 Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
157 the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
158 as verbatim copying in other respects.
159
160 If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
161 legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
162 reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
163 pages.
164
165 If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
166 more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent
167 copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy
168 a computer-network location from which the general network-using
169 public has access to download using public-standard network protocols
170 a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material.
171 If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps,
172 when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure
173 that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated
174 location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an
175 Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that
176 edition to the public.
177
178 It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
179 Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give
180 them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.
181 @sp 1
182 @item
183 MODIFICATIONS
184
185 You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
186 the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
187 the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
188 Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
189 and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
190 of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
191
192 A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
193 from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions
194 (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
195 of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version
196 if the original publisher of that version gives permission.@*
197 B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
198 responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
199 Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
200 Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five),
201 unless they release you from this requirement.@*
202 C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
203 Modified Version, as the publisher.@*
204 D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.@*
205 E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
206 adjacent to the other copyright notices.@*
207 F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
208 giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the
209 terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.@*
210 G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
211 and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.@*
212 H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.@*
213 I. Preserve the section Entitled ``History'', Preserve its Title, and add
214 to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
215 publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
216 there is no section Entitled ``History'' in the Document, create one
217 stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
218 given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
219 Version as stated in the previous sentence.@*
220 J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
221 public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
222 the network locations given in the Document for previous versions
223 it was based on. These may be placed in the ``History'' section.
224 You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
225 least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
226 publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.@*
227 K. For any section Entitled ``Acknowledgements'' or ``Dedications'',
228 Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all
229 the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements
230 and/or dedications given therein.@*
231 L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
232 unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
233 or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.@*
234 M. Delete any section Entitled ``Endorsements.'' Such a section
235 may not be included in the Modified Version.@*
236 N. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled ``Endorsements''
237 or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.@*
238 O. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.@*
239 @sp 1
240 If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
241 appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
242 copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
243 of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
244 list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
245 These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
246
247 You may add a section Entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains
248 nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
249 parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
250 been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
251 standard.
252
253 You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
254 passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
255 of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
256 Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
257 through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
258 includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
259 by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
260 you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
261 permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
262
263 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
264 give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
265 imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
266 @sp 1
267 @item
268 COMBINING DOCUMENTS
269
270 You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
271 License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
272 versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
273 Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
274 list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
275 license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
276
277 The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
278 multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
279 copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
280 different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
281 adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
282 author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
283 Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
284 Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
285
286 In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled ``History''
287 in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
288 ``History''; likewise combine any sections Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
289 and any sections Entitled ``Dedications.'' You must delete all sections
290 Entitled ``Endorsements.''
291 @sp 1
292 @item
293 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
294
295 You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
296 released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
297 License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
298 the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
299 verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
300
301 You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
302 it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
303 License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
304 other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
305 @sp 1
306 @item
307 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
308
309 A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
310 and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
311 distribution medium, is called an ``aggregate'' if the copyright
312 resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights
313 of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
314 When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not
315 apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves
316 derivative works of the Document.
317
318 If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
319 copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of
320 the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
321 covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
322 electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.
323 Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
324 aggregate.
325 @sp 1
326 @item
327 TRANSLATION
328
329 Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
330 distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
331 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
332 permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
333 translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
334 original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
335 translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
336 Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
337 the original English version of this License and the original versions
338 of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between
339 the translation and the original version of this License or a notice
340 or disclaimer, the original version will prevail.
341
342 If a section in the Document is Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
343 ``Dedications'', or ``History'', the requirement (section 4) to Preserve
344 its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
345 title.
346 @sp 1
347 @item
348 TERMINATION
349
350 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
351 as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
352 copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
353 automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
354 parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
355 License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
356 parties remain in full compliance.
357 @sp 1
358 @item
359 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
360
361 The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
362 of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
363 versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
364 differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
365 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.
366
367 Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
368 If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
369 License ``or any later version'' applies to it, you have the option of
370 following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
371 of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
372 Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
373 number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
374 as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
375
376 @end enumerate
377
378 @unnumberedsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
379
380 To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
381 the License in the document and put the following copyright and
382 license notices just after the title page:
383
384 @smallexample
385 @group
386 Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}.
387 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
388 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
389 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
390 with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
391 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
392 Free Documentation License''.
393 @end group
394 @end smallexample
395
396 If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
397 replace the ``with...Texts.'' line with this:
398
399 @smallexample
400 @group
401 with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with the
402 Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts being
403 @var{list}.
404 @end group
405 @end smallexample
406
407 If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
408 combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
409 situation.
410
411 If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
412 recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
413 free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
414 to permit their use in free software.
415
416 @ignore
417 arch-tag: c1679162-1d8a-4f02-bc52-2e71765f0165
418 @end ignore