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                GNU Free Documentation License
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                 Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
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 Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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     <http://fsf.org/>
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 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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0. PREAMBLE
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The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to
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assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
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with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
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We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
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1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that
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4. MODIFICATIONS
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You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
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G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
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H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
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   publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page.  If
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L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
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M. Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements".  Such a section
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been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
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of Cover Texts in the Modified Version.  Only one passage of
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through arrangements made by) any one entity.  If the Document already
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5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
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License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
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license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
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