1 @node GNU Free Documentation License
2 @appendixsec GNU Free Documentation License
4 @cindex FDL, GNU Free Documentation License
5 @center Version 1.1, March 2000
8 Copyright @copyright{} 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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11 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
12 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
19 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
20 written document @dfn{free} in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone
21 the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without
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25 modifications made by others.
27 This License is a kind of ``copyleft'', which means that derivative
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32 We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
33 software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
34 program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
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36 it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
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41 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
43 This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
44 notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed
45 under the terms of this License. The ``Document'', below, refers to any
46 such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is
49 A ``Modified Version'' of the Document means any work containing the
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64 The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
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100 preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
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370 @appendixsubsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
372 To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
373 the License in the document and put the following copyright and
374 license notices just after the title page:
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
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389 If you have no Invariant Sections, write ``with no Invariant Sections''
390 instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no
391 Front-Cover Texts, write ``no Front-Cover Texts'' instead of
392 ``Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}''; likewise for Back-Cover Texts.
394 If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
395 recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
396 free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
397 to permit their use in free software.
400 @c ispell-local-pdict: "ispell-dict"