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<h2 class="appendix">Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License</h2>
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<pre class="display"> Copyright (C) 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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<li>PREAMBLE
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<p>The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
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written document “free” in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone
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the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without
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this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get
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credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for
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modifications made by others.
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works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
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complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
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license designed for free software.
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software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
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program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
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whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
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principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
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<li>APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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<p>This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
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notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed
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under the terms of this License. The “Document”, below, refers to any
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addressed as “you.”
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Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
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(or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
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textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
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mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
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commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
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<p>The “Invariant Sections” are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
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that says that the Document is released under this License.
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the Document is released under this License.
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<li>VERBATIM COPYING
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you may publicly display copies.
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Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
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reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
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<p>If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
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<li>MODIFICATIONS
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<p>You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
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and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
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of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
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(which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
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of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version
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if the original publisher of that version gives permission.<br>
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B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
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responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
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Document (all of its principal authors, if it has less than five).<br>
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terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.<br>
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G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
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and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.<br>
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I. Preserve the section entitled “History”, and its title, and add to
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it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
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publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
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there is no section entitled “History” in the Document, create one
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J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
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public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
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You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
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least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
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publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.<br>
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K. In any section entitled “Acknowledgements” or “Dedications”,
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preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the
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substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements
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and/or dedications given therein.<br>
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L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
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unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
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or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.<br>
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M. Delete any section entitled “Endorsements.” Such a section
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may not be included in the Modified Version.<br>
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or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.<br>
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If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
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appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
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copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
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of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
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list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
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These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
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<p>You may add a section entitled “Endorsements”, provided it contains
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nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
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parties–for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
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been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
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standard.
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<p>You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
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passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
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of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
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Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
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through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
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by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
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you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
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permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
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<p>The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
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give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
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imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
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<li>COMBINING DOCUMENTS
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<p>You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
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License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
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versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
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Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
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list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
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license notice.
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<p>The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
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multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
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copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
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different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
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adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
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author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
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Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
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Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
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<p>In the combination, you must combine any sections entitled “History”
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in the various original documents, forming one section entitled
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“History”; likewise combine any sections entitled “Acknowledgements”,
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and any sections entitled “Dedications.” You must delete all sections
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entitled “Endorsements.”
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<li>COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
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<p>You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
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released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
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License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
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the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
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verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
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<p>You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
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it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
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License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
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other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
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<li>AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
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<p>A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
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and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
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distribution medium, does not as a whole count as a Modified Version
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of the Document, provided no compilation copyright is claimed for the
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compilation. Such a compilation is called an “aggregate”, and this
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License does not apply to the other self-contained works thus compiled
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with the Document, on account of their being thus compiled, if they
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are not themselves derivative works of the Document.
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<p>If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
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copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one quarter
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of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
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covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate.
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Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate.
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<li>TRANSLATION
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<p>Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
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distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
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Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
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permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
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translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
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original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
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original English version of this License. In case of a disagreement
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License, the original English version will prevail.
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<li>TERMINATION
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<p>You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
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as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
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parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
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License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
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<li>FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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<p>The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
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of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
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versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
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differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
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http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.
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<p>Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
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If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
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License “or any later version” applies to it, you have the option of
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following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
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of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
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Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
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number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
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as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
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<h3 class="unnumberedsec">ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents</h3>
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<p>To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
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<pre class="smallexample"> Copyright (C) <var>year</var> <var>your name</var>.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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with the Invariant Sections being <var>list their titles</var>, with the
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Front-Cover Texts being <var>list</var>, and with the Back-Cover Texts being <var>list</var>.
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A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
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Free Documentation License."
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<p>If you have no Invariant Sections, write “with no Invariant Sections”
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instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no
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Front-Cover Texts, write “no Front-Cover Texts” instead of
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“Front-Cover Texts being <var>list</var>”; likewise for Back-Cover Texts.
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<p>If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
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recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
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