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   GNU Free Documentation License
   Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
	     Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	     E<lt>B<https://www.fsf.org>E<gt>

	     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
	 functional  and useful document 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.  Secon-
	 darily, 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  comple-
	 ments	the  GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license de-
	 signed for free software.

	 We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals  for  free
	 software,  because  free software needs free documentation: a free pro-
	 gram should come with manuals providing  the  same  freedoms  that  the
	 software does.  But this License is not limited to software manuals; it
	 can  be  used	for  any  textual  work, regardless of subject matter or
	 whether it is published as a printed book.  We recommend  this  License
	 principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.

     1.  APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

	 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  dis-
	 tributed  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 Doc-
	 ument 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 pub-
	 lishers 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 text-
	 book of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any  mathemat-
	 ics.)	The relationship could be a matter of historical connection with
	 the  subject  or  with related matters, or of legal, commercial, philo-
	 sophical, 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.  If a  sec-
	 tion  does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not al-
	 lowed to be designated as Invariant.  The Document may contain zero In-
	 variant Sections.  If the Document does not identify any Invariant Sec-
	 tions 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.  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,  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 format-
	 ters.	A copy made  in  an  otherwise	Transparent  file  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 ASCII
	 without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML  or  XML
	 using	a  publicly  available DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML,
	 PostScript or PDF designed for human modification.  Examples of  trans-
	 parent  image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG.  Opaque formats include
	 proprietary formats that can be read and  edited  only  by  proprietary
	 word  processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools
	 are not generally available, and the machine-generated HTML, PostScript
	 or 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  this
	 License  requires  to	appear	in the title page.  For works in 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
	 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  Dis-
	 claimers  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.

     2.  VERBATIM COPYING

	 You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either  commer-
	 cially  or  noncommercially,  provided that this License, the copyright
	 notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Doc-
	 ument are reproduced in all copies, and that you add  no  other  condi-
	 tions	whatsoever  to those of this License.  You may not use technical
	 measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying  of  the
	 copies you make or distribute.  However, you may accept compensation in
	 exchange for copies.  If you distribute a large enough number of copies
	 you must also follow the conditions in section 3.

	 You  may  also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
	 you may publicly display copies.

     3.  COPYING IN QUANTITY

	 If you publish printed copies (or copies in media  that  commonly  have
	 printed covers) of the Document, numbering more than 100, and the Docu-
	 ment'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 the full title
	 with all words of the title equally prominent and visible.  You may add
	 other material on the covers in addition.  Copying with changes limited
	 to the covers, as long as they preserve the title of the  Document  and
	 satisfy  these  conditions, can be treated as verbatim copying in other
	 respects.

	 If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit  legi-
	 bly,  you  should put the first ones listed (as many as fit reasonably)
	 on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent 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 computer-network location from which the general network-using public
	 has  access  to download using public-standard network protocols a com-
	 plete 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 un-
	 til 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
	 them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.

     4.  MODIFICATIONS

	 You  may  copy  and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
	 the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release the
	 Modified Version under precisely this License, with the  Modified  Ver-
	 sion  filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution and
	 modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it.
	 In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:

	 A.  Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title	distinct
	     from  that  of  the  Document,  and from those of previous versions
	     (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History  section
	     of the Document).	You may use the same title as a previous version
	     if the original publisher of that version gives permission.

	 B.  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 fewer than
	     five), unless they release you from this requirement.

	 C.  State on the Title page the name of the publisher of  the	Modified
	     Version, as the publisher.

	 D.  Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.

	 E.  Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications adjacent
	     to the other copyright notices.

	 F.  Include,  immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
	     giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under  the
	     terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.

	 G.  Preserve  in  that  license notice the full lists of Invariant Sec-
	     tions and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license  no-
	     tice.

	 H.  Include an unaltered copy of this License.

	 I.  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 stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document
	     as  given	on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modi-
	     fied Version as stated in the previous sentence.

	 J.  Preserve the network location, if any, given in  the  Document  for
	     public  access  to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
	     the network locations given in the Document for  previous	versions
	     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
	     least  four  years  before  the Document itself, or if the original
	     publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.

	 K.  For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",  Pre-
	     serve 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 may not
	     be included in the Modified Version.

	 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 appen-
	 dices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material copied
	 from the Document, you may at your option  designate  some  or  all  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
	 nothing but endorsements of  your  Modified  Version  by  various  par-
	 ties---for example, statements of peer review or that the text has been
	 approved  by an organization as the authoritative definition of a stan-
	 dard.

	 You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and  a
	 passage  of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
	 of Cover Texts in the Modified Version.  Only	one  passage  of  Front-
	 Cover	Text  and  one	of  Back-Cover	Text may be added by (or through
	 arrangements made by) any one entity.	If the Document already includes
	 a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or by arrange-
	 ment made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of, you	may  not
	 add  another;	but  you may replace the old one, on explicit permission
	 from the previous publisher that added the old one.

	 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by  this  License
	 give  permission  to  use their names for publicity for or to assert or
	 imply endorsement of any Modified Version.

     5.  COMBINING DOCUMENTS

	 You may combine the Document with other documents released  under  this
	 License,  under  the terms defined in section 4 above for modified ver-
	 sions, provided that you include in the combination all of the  Invari-
	 ant  Sections	of  all  of the original documents, unmodified, and list
	 them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license no-
	 tice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.

	 The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and  mul-
	 tiple	identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy.
	 If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but differ-
	 ent contents, make the title of each such section unique by  adding  at
	 the  end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original author or pub-
	 lisher 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 "Acknowledgements", and any sec-
	 tions	Entitled  "Dedications".   You must delete all sections Entitled
	 "Endorsements."

     6.  COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS

	 You may make a collection consisting of the Document  and  other  docu-
	 ments released under this License, and replace the individual copies of
	 this  License	in  the various documents with a single copy that is in-
	 cluded in the collection, provided that you follow the  rules	of  this
	 License  for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other re-
	 spects.

	 You may extract a single document from such a collection, and	distrib-
	 ute  it  individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of
	 this License into the extracted document, and follow  this  License  in
	 all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.

     7.  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, is called an "aggregate" if the copyright result-
	 ing 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 half of
	 the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on  cov-
	 ers  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.

     8.  TRANSLATION

	 Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute
	 translations  of  the Document under the terms of section 4.  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, and
	 all  the license notices in the Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers,
	 provided that you also include the original English version of this Li-
	 cense 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",	"Dedica-
	 tions", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to Preserve its Title
	 (section 1) will typically require changing the actual title.

     9.  TERMINATION

	 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
	 as  expressly	provided  under  this License.	Any attempt otherwise to
	 copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute it is void, and will  automati-
	 cally terminate your rights under this License.

	 However,  if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
	 from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, un-
	 less and until the copyright holder explicitly and  finally  terminates
	 your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to no-
	 tify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days af-
	 ter the cessation.

	 Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated
	 permanently  if  the  copyright holder notifies you of the violation by
	 some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received  notice
	 of violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder,
	 and  you  cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the
	 notice.

	 Termination of your rights under this section does  not  terminate  the
	 licenses  of  parties who have received copies or rights from you under
	 this License.	If your rights have been terminated and not  permanently
	 reinstated,  receipt of a copy of some or all of the same material does
	 not give you any rights to use it.

     10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE

	 The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions  of  the
	 GNU  Free  Documentation  License from time to time.  Such new versions
	 will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in de-
	 tail	 to    address	  new	  problems     or     concerns.      See
	 <https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/>.

	 Each  version	of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
	 If the Document specifies that a particular numbered  version	of  this
	 License  "or  any  later version" applies to it, you have the option of
	 following the terms and conditions either of that specified version  or
	 of  any  later  version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
	 Free Software Foundation.  If the Document does not specify  a  version
	 number  of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
	 as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.  If the Document specifies
	 that a proxy can decide which future versions of this	License  can  be
	 used,	that  proxy's public statement of acceptance of a version perma-
	 nently authorizes you to choose that version for the Document.

     11. RELICENSING

	 "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site"  (or	"MMC  Site")  means  any
	 World	Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also pro-
	 vides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works.   A  public
	 wiki  that anybody can edit is an example of such a server.  A "Massive
	 Multiauthor Collaboration" (or "MMC") contained in the site  means  any
	 set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC site.

	 "CC-BY-SA"  means  the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 li-
	 cense published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit  cor-
	 poration  with a principal place of business in San Francisco, Califor-
	 nia, as well as future copyleft versions of that license  published  by
	 that same organization.

	 "Incorporate"	means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or in
	 part, as part of another Document.

	 An MMC is "eligible for relicensing" if it is licensed under  this  Li-
	 cense,  and  if  all works that were first published under this License
	 somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated  in  whole
	 or  in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections,
	 and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.

	 The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the  site
	 under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009, pro-
	 vided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.

   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 license notices
     just after the title page:

	       Copyright (C)  <year>  <your name>.
	       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
	       under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
	       or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
	       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".

     If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, re-
     place the "with...Texts." line with this:

		 with the Invariant Sections being <list their titles>, with
		 the Front-Cover Texts being <list>, and with the Back-Cover Texts
		 being <list>.

     If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other	combina-
     tion 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 free software li-
     cense,  such as the GNU General Public License, to permit their use in free
     software.

SEE ALSO
     gpl(7), fsf-funding(7).

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software  Foundation,  Inc.
     <https://www.fsf.org>

     Everyone  is  permitted  to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this li-
     cense document, but changing it is not allowed.

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