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8 GNU Free Documentation License

Version 1.2, November 2002

Copyright © 2000,2001,2002 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.

PREAMBLE

The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the

effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or non commercially. Secondarily, this License preserves for

the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.

This License is a kind of copyleft , which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU

General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software.

We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free program 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 whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or

reference.

17.1 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under

the terms of this License. Such a notice grants a worldwide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that work under the conditions stated herein.

The Document, below, refers to any such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as you. You accept the license if you

copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under copyright law.

A Modified Version of the Document means any work containing the Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with modifications and/or

translated into another language.

A Secondary Section is a named appendix or a front-matter section of the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the publishers or

authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly within that overall subject.

(Thus, if the Document is in part a textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of

historical connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal, commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.

The Invariant Sections are certain Secondary Sections whose titles are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice that says that the

Document is released under this License. If a section does not _t the above definition of Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as Invariant. The

Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify any Invariant Sections then there are none.

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17.2 VERBATIM COPYING

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License. You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may

accept compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 17.3.

You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and you may publicly display copies.

17.3 COPYING IN QUANTITY

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