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 C.3 GNU Free Documentation License
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                       Version 1.2, November 2002
 
      Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
 
      Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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   0. PREAMBLE
 
      The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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      This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
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   1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
 
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      A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
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      To "Preserve the Title" of such a section when you modify the
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      The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice
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   2. VERBATIM COPYING
 
      You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
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   3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
 
      If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly
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      If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
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   4. MODIFICATIONS
 
      You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document
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        A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title
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           in the History section of the Document).  You may use the
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        B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or
           entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in
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           principal authors of the Document (all of its principal
           authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you
           from this requirement.
 
        C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
           Modified Version, as the publisher.
 
        D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
 
        E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
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        F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license
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        G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant
           Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document's
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        H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
 
        I. 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.
 
        J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document
           for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and
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           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
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        K. 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.
 
        L. 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.
 
        M. Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements".  Such a section
           may not be included in the Modified Version.
 
        N. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled
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        O. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
 
      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
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      other section titles.
 
      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.
 
      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
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      The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this
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   5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
 
      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.
 
      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
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      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."
 
   6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
 
      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.
 
      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.
 
   7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
 
      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
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      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.
 
   8. TRANSLATION
 
      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
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      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.
 
   9. TERMINATION
 
      You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
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      void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this
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  10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
 
      The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of
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      versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
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      Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version
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 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
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 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:
 
        Copyright (C)  YEAR  YOUR NAME.
        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''.
 
    If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover
 Texts, replace the "with...Texts." line with this:
 
          with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with
          the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts
          being LIST.
 
    If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
 combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
 situation.
 
    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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