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GFDL - The GNU Free Documentation License
Version 1.1, March 2000
Copyright (c) 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
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their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications
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We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
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gram 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
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1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by
the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being [list
their titles], with the Front-Cover Texts being [list], and with the
Back-Cover Texts being [list]. A copy of the license is included in
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[list]"; likewise for Back-Cover Texts.
If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we rec-
ommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free
software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit
their use in free software.
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