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0. PREAMBLE The purpose of
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and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either
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We have designed this
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because free software needs free documentation: a free program
should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
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We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose
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1. APPLICABILITY AND
DEFINITIONS
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4. MODIFICATIONS
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more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the
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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.
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publisher.
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required Cover Texts given in the Document's license
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I. Preserve the section
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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
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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.
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based on. These may be placed in the "History"
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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", 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
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and in their titles. Section numbers or the equivalent are
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to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
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If the Modified Version
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text has been approved by an organization as the
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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
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5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
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if known, or else a unique number. Make the same adjustment
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In the combination, you
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the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
"History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled
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DOCUMENTS
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