--- fdl-1.2-draft.txt 2002-11-27 13:04:38.000000000 -0500 +++ fdl-1.2.txt 2002-11-27 11:37:41.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -*draft* GNU Free Documentation License *draft* January 2002 -This version is circulated as a draft and has no legal force. -Comments on this draft should be directed to . +GNU Free Documentation License -Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + 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 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ 0. PREAMBLE The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other - written 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. 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 "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 @@ -32,11 +32,15 @@ 1. 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 @@ -44,11 +48,11 @@ 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. @@ -57,8 +61,9 @@ are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice 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 no - Invariant Sections. + 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 @@ -75,18 +80,19 @@ to text formatters. 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. - A copy that is not "Transparent" is called "Opaque". + 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 designed for human modification. Examples of transparent image - formats include PNG, XCF and JPG. Opaque formats include PostScript, - PDF, proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by + HTML, PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples of + transparent 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 produced by some word processors for output - purposes only. + 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 @@ -99,14 +105,14 @@ 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" + "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 + 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. @@ -148,16 +154,15 @@ 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 @@ -183,7 +188,7 @@ 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), unless they release you from this requirement. + 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. @@ -197,13 +202,14 @@ 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", and 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 Modified - Version as stated in the previous sentence. + * 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 Modified 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 @@ -212,9 +218,9 @@ published at least four years before the Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission. - * K. In any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications", - preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the - substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements + * 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 @@ -273,8 +279,8 @@ 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". + and any sections Entitled "Dedications". You must delete all sections + Entitled "Endorsements." 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS @@ -305,8 +311,10 @@ 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 - covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate. - Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate. + 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. 8. TRANSLATION @@ -317,15 +325,16 @@ 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 + Document, and any Warrany 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 to preserve its title - (section 4) will typically require an altered title (section 1). + "Dedications", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to Preserve + its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual + title. 9. TERMINATION @@ -337,18 +346,12 @@ License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance. - 10. WARRANTY + 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE - The Document may state other notices to disclaim warranty or limit - liability; they are considered to be included by reference as - part of this license. - - 11. 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 detail to address new problems or concerns. See + 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 + detail to address new problems or concerns. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/. Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number. @@ -360,7 +363,7 @@ number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. - ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents +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 @@ -368,9 +371,10 @@ 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 1.1 + under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; - with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. + 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". @@ -388,7 +392,3 @@ recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit their use in free software. - - - *draft* GNU Free Documentation License *draft* January 2002 - This version is circulated as a draft and has no legal force.