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1 @c The GNU Free Documentation License. 2 @center Version 1.3, 3 November 2008 3 4 @c This file is intended to be included within another document, 5 @c hence no sectioning command or @node. 6 7 @display 8 Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 9 @uref{https://fsf.org/} 10 11 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies 12 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 13 @end display 14 15 @enumerate 0 16 @item 17 PREAMBLE 18 19 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other 20 functional and useful document @dfn{free} in the sense of freedom: to 21 assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, 22 with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. 23 Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way 24 to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible 25 for modifications made by others. 26 27 This License is a kind of ``copyleft'', which means that derivative 28 works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. 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