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						GNU Free Documentation License
						
						Version 1.2, November 2002
						
						
						
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  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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						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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						2. VERBATIM COPYING
						
						
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						3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
						
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						4. MODIFICATIONS
						
						You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
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						- A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
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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 the Modified
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						   unless they release you from this requirement.
						
- C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
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- 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 notice
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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 license notice.
						
- H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
						
- I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add
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						   Version as stated in the previous sentence.
						
- J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
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						   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
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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
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- N. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled "Endorsements"
						   or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
						
- O. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
						
						
						If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
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						These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
						
						You may add a section Entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains
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						5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
						
						You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
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						The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
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						Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
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						In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled "History"
						in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
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						Entitled "Endorsements."
						
						
						
						6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
						
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						7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
						
						A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
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						When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not
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						8. TRANSLATION
						
						Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
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						If a section in the Document is Entitled "Acknowledgements",
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						9. TERMINATION
						
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