]> git.saurik.com Git - bison.git/blame - doc/fdl.texi
Fix a bad interaction with flex 2.5.23 reported by Bruce Lilly in
[bison.git] / doc / fdl.texi
CommitLineData
f2b5126e
PB
1@node GNU Free Documentation License
2@appendixsec GNU Free Documentation License
3
4@cindex FDL, GNU Free Documentation License
5@center Version 1.1, March 2000
6
7@display
8Copyright @copyright{} 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
959 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
10
11Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
12of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
13@end display
14
15@enumerate 0
16@item
17PREAMBLE
18
19The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
20written document @dfn{free} in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone
21the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without
22modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily,
23this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get
24credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for
25modifications made by others.
26
27This License is a kind of ``copyleft'', which means that derivative
28works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
29complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
30license designed for free software.
31
32We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
33software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
34program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
35software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals;
36it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
37whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
38principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
39
40@item
41APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
42
43This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
44notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed
45under the terms of this License. The ``Document'', below, refers to any
46such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is
47addressed as ``you''.
48
49A ``Modified Version'' of the Document means any work containing the
50Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
51modifications and/or translated into another language.
52
53A ``Secondary Section'' is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
54the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
55publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
56(or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
57within that overall subject. (For example, if the Document is in part a
58textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
59mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
60connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
61commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
62them.
63
64The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
65are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
66that says that the Document is released under this License.
67
68The ``Cover Texts'' are certain short passages of text that are listed,
69as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that
70the Document is released under this License.
71
72A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
73represented in a format whose specification is available to the
74general public, whose contents can be viewed and edited directly and
75straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of
76pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available
77drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or
78for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input
79to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file
80format whose markup has been designed to thwart or discourage
81subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. A copy that is
82not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque''.
83
84Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
85@sc{ascii} without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input format,
86@acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} using a publicly available
87@acronym{DTD}, and standard-conforming simple @acronym{HTML} designed
88for human modification. Opaque formats include PostScript,
89@acronym{PDF}, proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
90proprietary word processors, @acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} for which
91the @acronym{DTD} and/or processing tools are not generally available,
92and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML} produced by some word
93processors for output purposes only.
94
95The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
96plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
97this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
98formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
99the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
100preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
101
102@item
103VERBATIM COPYING
104
105You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
106commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
107copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
108to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
109conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use
110technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
111copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept
112compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough
113number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
114
115You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
116you may publicly display copies.
117
118@item
119COPYING IN QUANTITY
120
121If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than 100,
122and the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose
123the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
124Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
125the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
126you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
127the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
128visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
129Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
130the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
131as verbatim copying in other respects.
132
133If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
134legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
135reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
136pages.
137
138If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
139more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent
140copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy
141a publicly-accessible computer-network location containing a complete
142Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material, which the
143general network-using public has access to download anonymously at no
144charge using public-standard network protocols. If you use the latter
145option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin
146distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this
147Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location
148until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque
149copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition to
150the public.
151
152It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
153Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give
154them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.
155
156@item
157MODIFICATIONS
158
159You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
160the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
161the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
162Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
163and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
164of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
165
166@enumerate A
167@item
168Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
169from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions
170(which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
171of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version
172if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
173
174@item
175List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
176responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
177Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
178Document (all of its principal authors, if it has less than five).
179
180@item
181State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
182Modified Version, as the publisher.
183
184@item
185Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
186
187@item
188Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
189adjacent to the other copyright notices.
190
191@item
192Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
193giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the
194terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
195
196@item
197Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
198and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
199
200@item
201Include an unaltered copy of this License.
202
203@item
204Preserve the section entitled ``History'', and its title, and add to
205it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
206publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
207there is no section entitled ``History'' in the Document, create one
208stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
209given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
210Version as stated in the previous sentence.
211
212@item
213Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
214public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
215the network locations given in the Document for previous versions
216it was based on. These may be placed in the ``History'' section.
217You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
218least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
219publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
220
221@item
222In any section entitled ``Acknowledgments'' or ``Dedications'',
223preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the
224substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgments
225and/or dedications given therein.
226
227@item
228Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
229unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
230or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
231
232@item
233Delete any section entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section
234may not be included in the Modified Version.
235
236@item
237Do not retitle any existing section as ``Endorsements''
238or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
239@end enumerate
240
241If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
242appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
243copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
244of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
245list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
246These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
247
248You may add a section entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains
249nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
250parties---for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
251been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
252standard.
253
254You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
255passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
256of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
257Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
258through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
259includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
260by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
261you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
262permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
263
264The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
265give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
266imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
267
268@item
269COMBINING DOCUMENTS
270
271You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
272License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
273versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
274Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
275list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
276license notice.
277
278The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
279multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
280copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
281different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
282adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
283author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
284Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
285Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
286
287In the combination, you must combine any sections entitled ``History''
288in the various original documents, forming one section entitled
289``History''; likewise combine any sections entitled ``Acknowledgments'',
290and any sections entitled ``Dedications''. You must delete all sections
291entitled ``Endorsements.''
292
293@item
294COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
295
296You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
297released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
298License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
299the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
300verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
301
302You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
303it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
304License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
305other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
306
307@item
308AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
309
310A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
311and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
312distribution medium, does not as a whole count as a Modified Version
313of the Document, provided no compilation copyright is claimed for the
314compilation. Such a compilation is called an ``aggregate'', and this
315License does not apply to the other self-contained works thus compiled
316with the Document, on account of their being thus compiled, if they
317are not themselves derivative works of the Document.
318
319If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
320copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one quarter
321of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
322covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate.
323Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate.
324
325@item
326TRANSLATION
327
328Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
329distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
330Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
331permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
332translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
333original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
334translation of this License provided that you also include the
335original English version of this License. In case of a disagreement
336between the translation and the original English version of this
337License, the original English version will prevail.
338
339@item
340TERMINATION
341
342You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
343as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
344copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
345automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
346parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
347License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
348parties remain in full compliance.
349
350@item
351FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
352
353The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
354of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
355versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
356differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
357@uref{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/}.
358
359Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
360If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
361License ``or any later version'' applies to it, you have the option of
362following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
363of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
364Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
365number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
366as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
367@end enumerate
368
369@page
370@appendixsubsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
371
372To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
373the License in the document and put the following copyright and
374license notices just after the title page:
375
376@smallexample
377@group
378 Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}.
379 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
380 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
381 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
382 with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with the
383 Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts being @var{list}.
384 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
385 Free Documentation License''.
386@end group
387@end smallexample
388
389If you have no Invariant Sections, write ``with no Invariant Sections''
390instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no
391Front-Cover Texts, write ``no Front-Cover Texts'' instead of
392``Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}''; likewise for Back-Cover Texts.
393
394If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
395recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
396free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
397to permit their use in free software.
398
399@c Local Variables:
400@c ispell-local-pdict: "ispell-dict"
401@c End: