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   513   <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
   513   <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1990
   514   Ty Coon, President of Vice
   514   Ty Coon, President of Vice
   515 
   515 
   516 That's all there is to it!
   516 That's all there is to it!
   517 
   517 
   518 
   518 --------------------------------------------------------------------
       
   519 
       
   520                 GNU Free Documentation License
       
   521                   Version 1.2, November 2002
       
   522 
       
   523 
       
   524  Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       
   525      51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
       
   526  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
       
   527  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
       
   528 
       
   529 
       
   530 0. PREAMBLE
       
   531 
       
   532 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
       
   533 functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to
       
   534 assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
       
   535 with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
       
   536 Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way
       
   537 to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible
       
   538 for modifications made by others.
       
   539 
       
   540 This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
       
   541 works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense.  It
       
   542 complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
       
   543 license designed for free software.
       
   544 
       
   545 We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
       
   546 software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
       
   547 program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
       
   548 software does.  But this License is not limited to software manuals;
       
   549 it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
       
   550 whether it is published as a printed book.  We recommend this License
       
   551 principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
       
   552 
       
   553 
       
   554 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
       
   555 
       
   556 This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that
       
   557 contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be
       
   558 distributed under the terms of this License.  Such a notice grants a
       
   559 world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that
       
   560 work under the conditions stated herein.  The "Document", below,
       
   561 refers to any such manual or work.  Any member of the public is a
       
   562 licensee, and is addressed as "you".  You accept the license if you
       
   563 copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission
       
   564 under copyright law.
       
   565 
       
   566 A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
       
   567 Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
       
   568 modifications and/or translated into another language.
       
   569 
       
   570 A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
       
   571 the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
       
   572 publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
       
   573 (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
       
   574 within that overall subject.  (Thus, if the Document is in part a
       
   575 textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
       
   576 mathematics.)  The relationship could be a matter of historical
       
   577 connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
       
   578 commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
       
   579 them.
       
   580 
       
   581 The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
       
   582 are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
       
   583 that says that the Document is released under this License.  If a
       
   584 section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not
       
   585 allowed to be designated as Invariant.  The Document may contain zero
       
   586 Invariant Sections.  If the Document does not identify any Invariant
       
   587 Sections then there are none.
       
   588 
       
   589 The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are listed,
       
   590 as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that
       
   591 the Document is released under this License.  A Front-Cover Text may
       
   592 be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words.
       
   593 
       
   594 A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
       
   595 represented in a format whose specification is available to the
       
   596 general public, that is suitable for revising the document
       
   597 straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of
       
   598 pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available
       
   599 drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or
       
   600 for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input
       
   601 to text formatters.  A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file
       
   602 format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart
       
   603 or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent.
       
   604 An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount
       
   605 of text.  A copy that is not "Transparent" is called "Opaque".
       
   606 
       
   607 Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
       
   608 ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML
       
   609 or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple
       
   610 HTML, PostScript or PDF designed for human modification.  Examples of
       
   611 transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG.  Opaque formats
       
   612 include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
       
   613 proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or
       
   614 processing tools are not generally available, and the
       
   615 machine-generated HTML, PostScript or PDF produced by some word
       
   616 processors for output purposes only.
       
   617 
       
   618 The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
       
   619 plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
       
   620 this License requires to appear in the title page.  For works in
       
   621 formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means
       
   622 the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
       
   623 preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
       
   624 
       
   625 A section "Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit of the Document whose
       
   626 title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
       
   627 text that translates XYZ in another language.  (Here XYZ stands for a
       
   628 specific section name mentioned below, such as "Acknowledgements",
       
   629 "Dedications", "Endorsements", or "History".)  To "Preserve the Title"
       
   630 of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
       
   631 section "Entitled XYZ" according to this definition.
       
   632 
       
   633 The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which
       
   634 states that this License applies to the Document.  These Warranty
       
   635 Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this
       
   636 License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other
       
   637 implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has
       
   638 no effect on the meaning of this License.
       
   639 
       
   640 
       
   641 2. VERBATIM COPYING
       
   642 
       
   643 You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
       
   644 commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
       
   645 copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
       
   646 to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
       
   647 conditions whatsoever to those of this License.  You may not use
       
   648 technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
       
   649 copying of the copies you make or distribute.  However, you may accept
       
   650 compensation in exchange for copies.  If you distribute a large enough
       
   651 number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
       
   652 
       
   653 You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
       
   654 you may publicly display copies.
       
   655 
       
   656 
       
   657 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
       
   658 
       
   659 If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have
       
   660 printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the
       
   661 Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the
       
   662 copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
       
   663 Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
       
   664 the back cover.  Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
       
   665 you as the publisher of these copies.  The front cover must present
       
   666 the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
       
   667 visible.  You may add other material on the covers in addition.
       
   668 Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
       
   669 the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
       
   670 as verbatim copying in other respects.
       
   671 
       
   672 If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
       
   673 legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
       
   674 reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
       
   675 pages.
       
   676 
       
   677 If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
       
   678 more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent
       
   679 copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy
       
   680 a computer-network location from which the general network-using
       
   681 public has access to download using public-standard network protocols
       
   682 a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material.
       
   683 If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps,
       
   684 when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure
       
   685 that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated
       
   686 location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an
       
   687 Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that
       
   688 edition to the public.
       
   689 
       
   690 It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
       
   691 Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give
       
   692 them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.
       
   693 
       
   694 
       
   695 4. MODIFICATIONS
       
   696 
       
   697 You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
       
   698 the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
       
   699 the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
       
   700 Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
       
   701 and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
       
   702 of it.  In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
       
   703 
       
   704 A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
       
   705    from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions
       
   706    (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
       
   707    of the Document).  You may use the same title as a previous version
       
   708    if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
       
   709 B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
       
   710    responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
       
   711    Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
       
   712    Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five),
       
   713    unless they release you from this requirement.
       
   714 C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
       
   715    Modified Version, as the publisher.
       
   716 D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
       
   717 E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
       
   718    adjacent to the other copyright notices.
       
   719 F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
       
   720    giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the
       
   721    terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
       
   722 G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
       
   723    and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
       
   724 H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
       
   725 I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add
       
   726    to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
       
   727    publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page.  If
       
   728    there is no section Entitled "History" in the Document, create one
       
   729    stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
       
   730    given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
       
   731    Version as stated in the previous sentence.
       
   732 J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
       
   733    public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
       
   734    the network locations given in the Document for previous versions
       
   735    it was based on.  These may be placed in the "History" section.
       
   736    You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
       
   737    least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
       
   738    publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
       
   739 K. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",
       
   740    Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all
       
   741    the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements
       
   742    and/or dedications given therein.
       
   743 L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
       
   744    unaltered in their text and in their titles.  Section numbers
       
   745    or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
       
   746 M. Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements".  Such a section
       
   747    may not be included in the Modified Version.
       
   748 N. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled "Endorsements"
       
   749    or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
       
   750 O. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
       
   751 
       
   752 If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
       
   753 appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
       
   754 copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
       
   755 of these sections as invariant.  To do this, add their titles to the
       
   756 list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
       
   757 These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
       
   758 
       
   759 You may add a section Entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains
       
   760 nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
       
   761 parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
       
   762 been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
       
   763 standard.
       
   764 
       
   765 You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
       
   766 passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
       
   767 of Cover Texts in the Modified Version.  Only one passage of
       
   768 Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
       
   769 through arrangements made by) any one entity.  If the Document already
       
   770 includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
       
   771 by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
       
   772 you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
       
   773 permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
       
   774 
       
   775 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
       
   776 give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
       
   777 imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
       
   778 
       
   779 
       
   780 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
       
   781 
       
   782 You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
       
   783 License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
       
   784 versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
       
   785 Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
       
   786 list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
       
   787 license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
       
   788 
       
   789 The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
       
   790 multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
       
   791 copy.  If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
       
   792 different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
       
   793 adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
       
   794 author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
       
   795 Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
       
   796 Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
       
   797 
       
   798 In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled "History"
       
   799 in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
       
   800 "History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled "Acknowledgements",
       
   801 and any sections Entitled "Dedications".  You must delete all sections
       
   802 Entitled "Endorsements".
       
   803 
       
   804 
       
   805 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
       
   806 
       
   807 You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
       
   808 released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
       
   809 License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
       
   810 the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
       
   811 verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
       
   812 
       
   813 You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
       
   814 it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
       
   815 License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
       
   816 other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
       
   817 
       
   818 
       
   819 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
       
   820 
       
   821 A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
       
   822 and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
       
   823 distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the copyright
       
   824 resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights
       
   825 of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
       
   826 When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not
       
   827 apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves
       
   828 derivative works of the Document.
       
   829 
       
   830 If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
       
   831 copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of
       
   832 the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
       
   833 covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
       
   834 electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form.
       
   835 Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
       
   836 aggregate.
       
   837 
       
   838 
       
   839 8. TRANSLATION
       
   840 
       
   841 Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
       
   842 distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
       
   843 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
       
   844 permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
       
   845 translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
       
   846 original versions of these Invariant Sections.  You may include a
       
   847 translation of this License, and all the license notices in the
       
   848 Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include
       
   849 the original English version of this License and the original versions
       
   850 of those notices and disclaimers.  In case of a disagreement between
       
   851 the translation and the original version of this License or a notice
       
   852 or disclaimer, the original version will prevail.
       
   853 
       
   854 If a section in the Document is Entitled "Acknowledgements",
       
   855 "Dedications", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to Preserve
       
   856 its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
       
   857 title.
       
   858 
       
   859 
       
   860 9. TERMINATION
       
   861 
       
   862 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
       
   863 as expressly provided for under this License.  Any other attempt to
       
   864 copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
       
   865 automatically terminate your rights under this License.  However,
       
   866 parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
       
   867 License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
       
   868 parties remain in full compliance.
       
   869 
       
   870 
       
   871 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
       
   872 
       
   873 The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
       
   874 of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time.  Such new
       
   875 versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
       
   876 differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.  See
       
   877 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.
       
   878 
       
   879 Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
       
   880 If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
       
   881 License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the option of
       
   882 following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
       
   883 of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
       
   884 Free Software Foundation.  If the Document does not specify a version
       
   885 number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
       
   886 as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
       
   887 
       
   888 
       
   889 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
       
   890 
       
   891 To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
       
   892 the License in the document and put the following copyright and
       
   893 license notices just after the title page:
       
   894 
       
   895     Copyright (c)  YEAR  YOUR NAME.
       
   896     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       
   897     under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
       
   898     or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
       
   899     with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
       
   900     A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
       
   901     Free Documentation License".
       
   902 
       
   903 If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
       
   904 replace the "with...Texts." line with this:
       
   905 
       
   906     with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the
       
   907     Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST.
       
   908 
       
   909 If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
       
   910 combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
       
   911 situation.
       
   912 
       
   913 If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
       
   914 recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
       
   915 free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
       
   916 to permit their use in free software.