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<h1 class="appendix"> <a href="gettext_toc.html#TOC369">C. Licenses</a> </h1> | |
<p>The files of this package are covered by the licenses indicated in each | |
particular file or directory. Here is a summary: | |
</p> | |
<ul> | |
<li> | |
The <code>libintl</code> and <code>libasprintf</code> libraries are covered by the | |
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). | |
A copy of the license is included in <a href="#SEC380">GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>. | |
</li><li> | |
The executable programs of this package and the <code>libgettextpo</code> library | |
are covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL). | |
A copy of the license is included in <a href="#SEC376">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>. | |
</li><li> | |
This manual is free documentation. It is dually licensed under the | |
GNU FDL and the GNU GPL. This means that you can redistribute this | |
manual under either of these two licenses, at your choice. | |
<br> | |
This manual is covered by the GNU FDL. Permission is granted to copy, | |
distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the | |
GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), either version 1.2 of the | |
License, or (at your option) any later version published by the | |
Free Software Foundation (FSF); with no Invariant Sections, with no | |
Front-Cover Text, and with no Back-Cover Texts. | |
A copy of the license is included in <a href="#SEC385">GNU Free Documentation License</a>. | |
<br> | |
This manual is covered by the GNU GPL. You can redistribute it and/or | |
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), either | |
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version published | |
by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). | |
A copy of the license is included in <a href="#SEC376">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>. | |
</li></ul> | |
<a name="GNU-GPL"></a> | |
<a name="SEC376"></a> | |
<h2 class="appendixsec"> <a href="gettext_toc.html#TOC370">C.1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a> </h2> | |
<p align="center"> Version 2, June 1991 | |
</p> | |
<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="display">Copyright © 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA | |
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
</pre></td></tr></table> | |
<a name="SEC377"></a> | |
<h2 class="heading"> Preamble </h2> | |
<p> The licenses for most software are designed to take away your | |
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public | |
License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free | |
software—to make sure the software is free for all its users. This | |
General Public License applies to most of the Free Software | |
Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to | |
using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by | |
the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to | |
your programs, too. | |
</p> | |
<p> When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not | |
price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you | |
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for | |
this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it | |
if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it | |
in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. | |
</p> | |
<p> To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid | |
anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. | |
These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you | |
distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it. | |
</p> | |
<p> For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether | |
gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that | |
you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the | |
source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their | |
rights. | |
</p> | |
<p> We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and | |
(2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, | |
distribute and/or modify the software. | |
</p> | |
<p> Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain | |
that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free | |
software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we | |
want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so | |
that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original | |
authors' reputations. | |
</p> | |
<p> Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software | |
patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free | |
program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the | |
program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any | |
patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all. | |
</p> | |
<p> The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and | |
modification follow. | |
</p> | |
<a name="SEC378"></a> | |
<h2 class="heading"> TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION </h2> | |
<ol> | |
<li> | |
This License applies to any program or other work which contains | |
a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed | |
under the terms of this General Public License. The “Program”, below, | |
refers to any such program or work, and a “work based on the Program” | |
means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: | |
that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, | |
either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another | |
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in | |
the term “modification”.) Each licensee is addressed as “you”. | |
<p>Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not | |
covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of | |
running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program | |
is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the | |
Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). | |
Whether that is true depends on what the Program does. | |
</p> | |
</li><li> | |
You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's | |
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you | |
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate | |
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the | |
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; | |
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License | |
along with the Program. | |
<p>You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and | |
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. | |
</p> | |
</li><li> | |
You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion | |
of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and | |
distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 | |
above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions: | |
<ol> | |
<li> | |
You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices | |
stating that you changed the files and the date of any change. | |
</li><li> | |
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in | |
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any | |
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third | |
parties under the terms of this License. | |
</li><li> | |
If the modified program normally reads commands interactively | |
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such | |
interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an | |
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a | |
notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide | |
a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under | |
these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this | |
License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but | |
does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on | |
the Program is not required to print an announcement.) | |
</li></ol> | |
<p>These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If | |
identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, | |
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in | |
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those | |
sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you | |
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based | |
on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of | |
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the | |
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. | |
</p> | |
<p>Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest | |
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to | |
exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or | |
collective works based on the Program. | |
</p> | |
<p>In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program | |
with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of | |
a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under | |
the scope of this License. | |
</p> | |
</li><li> | |
You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, | |
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of | |
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: | |
<ol> | |
<li> | |
Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable | |
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections | |
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, | |
</li><li> | |
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three | |
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your | |
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete | |
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be | |
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium | |
customarily used for software interchange; or, | |
</li><li> | |
Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer | |
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is | |
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you | |
received the program in object code or executable form with such | |
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) | |
</li></ol> | |
<p>The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for | |
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source | |
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any | |
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to | |
control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a | |
special exception, the source code distributed need not include | |
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary | |
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the | |
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component | |
itself accompanies the executable. | |
</p> | |
<p>If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering | |
access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent | |
access to copy the source code from the same place counts as | |
distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not | |
compelled to copy the source along with the object code. | |
</p> | |
</li><li> | |
You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program | |
except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt | |
otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is | |
void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. | |
However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under | |
this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such | |
parties remain in full compliance. | |
</li><li> | |
You are not required to accept this License, since you have not | |
signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or | |
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are | |
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by | |
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the | |
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and | |
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying | |
the Program or works based on it. | |
</li><li> | |
Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the | |
Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the | |
original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to | |
these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further | |
restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. | |
You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to | |
this License. | |
</li><li> | |
If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent | |
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), | |
conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or | |
otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not | |
excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot | |
distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this | |
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you | |
may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent | |
license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by | |
all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then | |
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refrain entirely from distribution of the Program. | |
<p>If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under | |
any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to | |
apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other | |
circumstances. | |
</p> | |
<p>It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any | |
patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any | |
such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the | |
integrity of the free software distribution system, which is | |
implemented by public license practices. Many people have made | |
generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed | |
through that system in reliance on consistent application of that | |
system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing | |
to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot | |
impose that choice. | |
</p> | |
<p>This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to | |
be a consequence of the rest of this License. | |
</p> | |
</li><li> | |
If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in | |
certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the | |
original copyright holder who places the Program under this License | |
may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding | |
those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among | |
countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates | |
the limitation as if written in the body of this License. | |
</li><li> | |
The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions | |
of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will | |
be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to | |
address new problems or concerns. | |
<p>Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program | |
specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and “any | |
later version”, you have the option of following the terms and conditions | |
either of that version or of any later version published by the Free | |
Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of | |
this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software | |
Foundation. | |
</p> | |
</li><li> | |
If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free | |
programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author | |
to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free | |
Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes | |
make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals | |
of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and | |
of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. | |
</li><li> | |
BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY | |
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN | |
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES | |
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED | |
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF | |
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS | |
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE | |
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, | |
REPAIR OR CORRECTION. | |
</li><li> | |
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING | |
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR | |
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, | |
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING | |
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED | |
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY | |
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER | |
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE | |
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. | |
</li></ol> | |
<a name="SEC379"></a> | |
<h2 class="heading"> Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs </h2> | |
<p> If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest | |
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it | |
free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms. | |
</p> | |
<p> To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest | |
to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively | |
convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least | |
the “copyright” line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. | |
</p> | |
<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="smallexample"><var>one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.</var> | |
Copyright (C) <var>yyyy</var> <var>name of author</var> | |
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
(at your option) any later version. | |
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
GNU General Public License for more details. | |
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | |
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
</pre></td></tr></table> | |
<p>Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail. | |
</p> | |
<p>If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this | |
when it starts in an interactive mode: | |
</p> | |
<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="smallexample">Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) <var>year</var> <var>name of author</var> | |
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. | |
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it | |
under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. | |
</pre></td></tr></table> | |
<p>The hypothetical commands ‘<samp>show w</samp>’ and ‘<samp>show c</samp>’ should show | |
the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the | |
commands you use may be called something other than ‘<samp>show w</samp>’ and | |
‘<samp>show c</samp>’; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items—whatever | |
suits your program. | |
</p> | |
<p>You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your | |
school, if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if | |
necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: | |
</p> | |
<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="example">Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program | |
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. | |
<var>signature of Ty Coon</var>, 1 April 1989 | |
Ty Coon, President of Vice | |
</pre></td></tr></table> | |
<p>This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into | |
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may | |
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the | |
library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General | |
Public License instead of this License. | |
</p> | |
<a name="GNU-LGPL"></a> | |
<a name="SEC380"></a> | |
<h2 class="appendixsec"> <a href="gettext_toc.html#TOC371">C.2 GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a> </h2> | |
<p align="center"> Version 2.1, February 1999 | |
</p> | |
<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="display">Copyright © 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA | |
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts | |
as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the | |
version number 2.1.] | |
</pre></td></tr></table> | |
<a name="SEC381"></a> | |
<h3 class="subheading"> Preamble </h3> | |
<p> The licenses for most software are designed to take away your | |
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public | |
Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change | |
free software—to make sure the software is free for all its users. | |
</p> | |
<p> This license, the Lesser General Public License, applies to some | |
specially designated software—typically libraries—of the Free | |
Software Foundation and other authors who decide to use it. You can use | |
it too, but we suggest you first think carefully about whether this | |
license or the ordinary General Public License is the better strategy to | |
use in any particular case, based on the explanations below. | |
</p> | |
<p> When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom of use, | |
not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that | |
you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge | |
for this service if you wish); that you receive source code or can get | |
it if you want it; that you can change the software and use pieces of it | |
in new free programs; and that you are informed that you can do these | |
things. | |
</p> | |
<p> To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid | |
distributors to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender these | |
rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for | |
you if you distribute copies of the library or if you modify it. | |
</p> | |
<p> For example, if you distribute copies of the library, whether gratis | |
or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that we gave | |
you. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source | |
code. If you link other code with the library, you must provide | |
complete object files to the recipients, so that they can relink them | |
with the library after making changes to the library and recompiling | |
it. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights. | |
</p> | |
<p> We protect your rights with a two-step method: (1) we copyright the | |
library, and (2) we offer you this license, which gives you legal | |
permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the library. | |
</p> | |
<p> To protect each distributor, we want to make it very clear that | |
there is no warranty for the free library. Also, if the library is | |
modified by someone else and passed on, the recipients should know | |
that what they have is not the original version, so that the original | |
author's reputation will not be affected by problems that might be | |
introduced by others. | |
</p> | |
<p> Finally, software patents pose a constant threat to the existence of | |
any free program. We wish to make sure that a company cannot | |
effectively restrict the users of a free program by obtaining a | |
restrictive license from a patent holder. Therefore, we insist that | |
any patent license obtained for a version of the library must be | |
consistent with the full freedom of use specified in this license. | |
</p> | |
<p> Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the | |
ordinary GNU General Public License. This license, the GNU Lesser | |
General Public License, applies to certain designated libraries, and | |
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output purposes only. | |
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plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material | |
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the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title, | |
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specific section name mentioned below, such as “Acknowledgements”, | |
“Dedications”, “Endorsements”, or “History”.) To “Preserve the Title” | |
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you may publicly display copies. | |
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visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition. | |
Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve | |
the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated | |
as verbatim copying in other respects. | |
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legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit | |
reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent | |
pages. | |
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edition to the public. | |
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MODIFICATIONS | |
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and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy | |
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<li> | |
Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct | |
from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions | |
(which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section | |
of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version | |
if the original publisher of that version gives permission. | |
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List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities | |
responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified | |
Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the | |
Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), | |
unless they release you from this requirement. | |
</li><li> | |
State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the | |
Modified Version, as the publisher. | |
</li><li> | |
Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document. | |
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Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications | |
adjacent to the other copyright notices. | |
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Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice | |
giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the | |
terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below. | |
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Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections | |
and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice. | |
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Include an unaltered copy of this License. | |
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Preserve the section Entitled “History”, Preserve its Title, and add | |
to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and | |
publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If | |
there is no section Entitled “History” in the Document, create one | |
stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as | |
given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified | |
Version as stated in the previous sentence. | |
</li><li> | |
Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for | |
public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise | |
the network locations given in the Document for previous versions | |
it was based on. These may be placed in the “History” section. | |
You may omit a network location for a work that was published at | |
least four years before the Document itself, or if the original | |
publisher of the version it refers to gives permission. | |
</li><li> | |
For any section Entitled “Acknowledgements” or “Dedications”, Preserve | |
the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the | |
substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or | |
dedications given therein. | |
</li><li> | |
Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, | |
unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers | |
or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles. | |
</li><li> | |
Delete any section Entitled “Endorsements”. Such a section | |
may not be included in the Modified Version. | |
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Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled “Endorsements” or | |
to conflict in title with any Invariant Section. | |
</li><li> | |
Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers. | |
</li></ol> | |
<p>If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or | |
appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material | |
copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all | |
of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the | |
list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice. | |
These titles must be distinct from any other section titles. | |
</p> | |
<p>You may add a section Entitled “Endorsements”, provided it contains | |
nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various | |
parties—for example, statements of peer review or that the text has | |
been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a | |
standard. | |
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<p>You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a | |
passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list | |
of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of | |
Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or | |
through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already | |
includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or | |
by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of, | |
you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit | |
permission from the previous publisher that added the old one. | |
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<p>The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License | |
give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or | |
imply endorsement of any Modified Version. | |
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COMBINING DOCUMENTS | |
<p>You may combine the Document with other documents released under this | |
License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified | |
versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the | |
Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and | |
list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its | |
license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers. | |
</p> | |
<p>The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and | |
multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single | |
copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but | |
different contents, make the title of each such section unique by | |
adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original | |
author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number. | |
Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of | |
Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work. | |
</p> | |
<p>In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled “History” | |
in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled | |
“History”; likewise combine any sections Entitled “Acknowledgements”, | |
and any sections Entitled “Dedications”. You must delete all | |
sections Entitled “Endorsements.” | |
</p> | |
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COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS | |
<p>You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents | |
released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this | |
License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in | |
the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for | |
verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects. | |
</p> | |
<p>You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute | |
it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this | |
License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all | |
other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document. | |
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AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS | |
<p>A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate | |
and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or | |
distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the copyright | |
resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights | |
of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. | |
When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not | |
apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves | |
derivative works of the Document. | |
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<p>If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these | |
copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of | |
the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on | |
covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the | |
electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form. | |
Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole | |
aggregate. | |
</p> | |
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TRANSLATION | |
<p>Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may | |
distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4. | |
Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special | |
permission from their copyright holders, but you may include | |
translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the | |
original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a | |
translation of this License, and all the license notices in the | |
Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include | |
the original English version of this License and the original versions | |
of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between | |
the translation and the original version of this License or a notice | |
or disclaimer, the original version will prevail. | |
</p> | |
<p>If a section in the Document is Entitled “Acknowledgements”, | |
“Dedications”, or “History”, the requirement (section 4) to Preserve | |
its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual | |
title. | |
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TERMINATION | |
<p>You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except | |
as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to | |
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automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, | |
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parties remain in full compliance. | |
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FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE | |
<p>The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions | |
of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new | |
versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may | |
differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See | |
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/">https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/</a>. | |
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<p>Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number. | |
If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this | |
License “or any later version” applies to it, you have the option of | |
following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or | |
of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the | |
Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version | |
number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not | |
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<h2 class="heading"> ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents </h2> | |
<p>To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of | |
the License in the document and put the following copyright and | |
license notices just after the title page: | |
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<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="smallexample"> Copyright (C) <var>year</var> <var>your name</var>. | |
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document | |
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 | |
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; | |
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover | |
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU | |
Free Documentation License''. | |
</pre></td></tr></table> | |
<p>If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, | |
replace the “with…Texts.” line with this: | |
</p> | |
<table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class="smallexample"> with the Invariant Sections being <var>list their titles</var>, with | |
the Front-Cover Texts being <var>list</var>, and with the Back-Cover Texts | |
being <var>list</var>. | |
</pre></td></tr></table> | |
<p>If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other | |
combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the | |
situation. | |
</p> | |
<p>If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we | |
recommend 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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