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diff --git a/doc/fdl.texi b/doc/fdl.texi index 50028ab..9c6d9af 100644 --- a/doc/fdl.texi +++ b/doc/fdl.texi @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -@node Free Documentation License -@appendix GNU Free Documentation License + +@node GNU Free Documentation License +@appendixsec GNU Free Documentation License @cindex FDL, GNU Free Documentation License -@center Version 1.1, March 2000 +@center Version 1.2, November 2002 @display -Copyright @copyright{} 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA +Copyright @copyright{} 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +51 Franklin St, 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. @@ -17,12 +18,12 @@ of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. PREAMBLE The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other -written document @dfn{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 noncommercially. 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. +functional and useful document @dfn{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 noncommercially. +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 @@ -40,57 +41,69 @@ principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference. @item APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS -This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a -notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed -under the terms of this License. The ``Document'', below, refers to any -such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is -addressed as ``you''. +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 +world-wide, 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. (For example, 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 +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. +that says that the Document is released under this License. If a +section does not fit 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. The ``Cover Texts'' are certain short passages of text that are listed, as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that -the Document is released under this License. +the Document is released under this License. A Front-Cover Text may +be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words. A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy, represented in a format whose specification is available to the -general public, whose contents can be viewed and edited directly and +general public, that is suitable for revising the document straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file -format whose markup has been designed to thwart or discourage -subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. A copy that is -not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque''. +format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart +or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. +An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount +of text. A copy that is not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque''. Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain -@sc{ascii} without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input format, -@acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} using a publicly available -@acronym{DTD}, and standard-conforming simple @acronym{HTML} designed -for human modification. Opaque formats include PostScript, -@acronym{PDF}, proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by -proprietary word processors, @acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} for which -the @acronym{DTD} and/or processing tools are not generally available, -and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML} produced by some word -processors for output purposes only. +@sc{ascii} without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input +format, @acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} using a publicly available +@acronym{DTD}, and standard-conforming simple @acronym{HTML}, +PostScript or @acronym{PDF} designed for human modification. Examples +of transparent image formats include @acronym{PNG}, @acronym{XCF} and +@acronym{JPG}. Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be +read and edited only by proprietary word processors, @acronym{SGML} or +@acronym{XML} for which the @acronym{DTD} and/or processing tools are +not generally available, and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML}, +PostScript or @acronym{PDF} produced by some word processors for +output purposes only. The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself, plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material @@ -99,6 +112,21 @@ formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title, preceding the beginning of the body of the text. +A section ``Entitled XYZ'' means a named subunit of the Document whose +title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following +text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a +specific section name mentioned below, such as ``Acknowledgements'', +``Dedications'', ``Endorsements'', or ``History''.) To ``Preserve the Title'' +of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a +section ``Entitled XYZ'' according to this definition. + +The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which +states that this License applies to the Document. These Warranty +Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this +License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other +implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has +no effect on the meaning of this License. + @item VERBATIM COPYING @@ -118,9 +146,10 @@ you may publicly display copies. @item COPYING IN QUANTITY -If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than 100, -and the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose -the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover +If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have +printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the +Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose the +copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present @@ -138,16 +167,15 @@ pages. If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy -a publicly-accessible computer-network location containing a complete -Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material, which the -general network-using public has access to download anonymously at no -charge using public-standard network protocols. If you use the latter -option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin -distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this -Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location -until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque -copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition to -the public. +a computer-network location from which the general network-using +public has access to download using public-standard network protocols +a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material. +If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, +when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure +that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated +location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an +Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that +edition to the public. It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give @@ -175,7 +203,8 @@ if the original publisher of that version gives permission. 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 less than five). +Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), +unless they release you from this requirement. @item State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the @@ -201,10 +230,10 @@ and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice. Include an unaltered copy of this License. @item -Preserve the section entitled ``History'', and its title, and add to -it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and +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 +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. @@ -219,10 +248,10 @@ least four years before the Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission. @item -In any section entitled ``Acknowledgments'' or ``Dedications'', -preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the -substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgments -and/or dedications given therein. +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. @item Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, @@ -230,12 +259,15 @@ unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles. @item -Delete any section entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section +Delete any section Entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version. @item -Do not retitle any existing section as ``Endorsements'' -or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section. +Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled ``Endorsements'' or +to conflict in title with any Invariant Section. + +@item +Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers. @end enumerate If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or @@ -245,7 +277,7 @@ 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. -You may add a section entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains +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 @@ -273,7 +305,7 @@ 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. +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 @@ -284,11 +316,11 @@ 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. -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 ``Acknowledgments'', -and any sections entitled ``Dedications''. You must delete all sections -entitled ``Endorsements.'' +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.'' @item COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS @@ -309,18 +341,20 @@ 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, does not as a whole count as a Modified Version -of the Document, provided no compilation copyright is claimed for the -compilation. Such a compilation is called an ``aggregate'', and this -License does not apply to the other self-contained works thus compiled -with the Document, on account of their being thus compiled, if they -are not themselves derivative works of the Document. +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. If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these -copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one quarter -of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on -covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate. -Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate. +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. @item TRANSLATION @@ -331,10 +365,17 @@ 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 provided that you also include the -original English version of this License. In case of a disagreement -between the translation and the original English version of this -License, the original English version will prevail. +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. + +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. @item TERMINATION @@ -367,7 +408,7 @@ as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. @end enumerate @page -@appendixsubsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents +@heading ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents 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 @@ -377,19 +418,28 @@ license notices just after the title page: @group Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document - under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 + under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; - with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with the - Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts being @var{list}. - A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU + 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''. @end group @end smallexample -If you have no Invariant Sections, write ``with no Invariant Sections'' -instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no -Front-Cover Texts, write ``no Front-Cover Texts'' instead of -``Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}''; likewise for Back-Cover Texts. +If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, +replace the ``with...Texts.'' line with this: + +@smallexample +@group + with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with + the Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts + being @var{list}. +@end group +@end smallexample + +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 |