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diff --git a/doc/fdl.txt b/doc/fdl.txt index daa2dd4..2f7e03c 100644 --- a/doc/fdl.txt +++ b/doc/fdl.txt @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ - GNU Free Documentation License - Version 1.2, November 2002 + GNU Free Documentation License + Version 1.3, 3 November 2008 - Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + + Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + <http://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. - 0. PREAMBLE The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other @@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ 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. (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 +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. @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ 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. +The "publisher" means any person or entity that distributes copies of +the Document to the public. + 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 @@ -118,14 +121,13 @@ 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. - 2. 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