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22                  Version 1.2, November 2002
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310. PREAMBLE
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551. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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1422. VERBATIM COPYING
143
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1583. COPYING IN QUANTITY
159
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1964. MODIFICATIONS
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211   responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
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242   the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements
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250   or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
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280
2815. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
282
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293different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
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300in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
301"History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled "Acknowledgements",
302and any sections Entitled "Dedications".  You must delete all sections
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305
3066. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
307
308You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
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3207. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
321
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3408. TRANSLATION
341
342Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
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356"Dedications", or "History", the requirement (section 4) to Preserve
357its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
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360
3619. TERMINATION
362
363You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
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37210. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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374The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
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389
390ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
391
392To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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396    Copyright (c)  YEAR  YOUR NAME.
397    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
398    under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
399    or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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401    A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
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403
404If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
405replace the "with...Texts." line with this:
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407    with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the
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409
410If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
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412situation.
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414If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
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416free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
417to permit their use in free software.
418