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<sect1 id="licenses-gfdl-section-1" xreflabel="Preamble">
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    <title>Preamble</title>
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    <para>The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook,
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    or other functional and useful document <quote>free</quote> in the
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    sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy
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    and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either
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    commercially or noncommercially.  Secondarily, this License
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    preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for
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    their work, while not being considered responsible for
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    modifications made by others.</para>
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    <para>This License is a kind of <quote>copyleft</quote>, which
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    means that derivative works of the document must themselves be
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    free in the same sense.  It complements the 
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    linkend="licenses-gfdl" />, which is a copyleft license
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    designed for free software.</para>
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    <para>We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals
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    for free software, because free software needs free documentation:
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    a free program should come with manuals providing the same
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    freedoms that the software does.  But this License is not limited
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    to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work,
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    regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a
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    printed book.  We recommend this License principally for works
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    whose purpose is instruction or reference.</para>
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