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BZ#13738: Switch manual to FDL 1.3.
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diff --git a/manual/fdl-1.1.texi b/manual/fdl-1.3.texi
index f093d54c06..cb71f05a17 100644
--- a/manual/fdl-1.1.texi
+++ b/manual/fdl-1.3.texi
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
@c The GNU Free Documentation License.
-@center Version 1.1, March 2000
+@center Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
@c This file is intended to be included within another document,
@c hence no sectioning command or @node.
@display
-Copyright @copyright{} 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
+Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@uref{http://fsf.org/}
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
PREAMBLE
The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
-written document @dfn{free} in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone
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-credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for
-modifications made by others.
+functional and useful document @dfn{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
@@ -40,57 +40,69 @@ principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
@item
APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
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A ``Modified Version'' of the Document means any work containing the
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The ``Invariant Sections'' are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
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The ``Cover Texts'' are certain short passages of text that are listed,
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A ``Transparent'' copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
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+format whose markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart
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+An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount
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Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
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-@acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} using a publicly available
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-and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML} produced by some word
-processors for output purposes only.
+ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input
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+PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for
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The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
@@ -99,6 +111,24 @@ formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
+The ``publisher'' means any person or entity that distributes copies
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+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''
+of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a
+section ``Entitled XYZ'' according to this definition.
+
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+no effect on the meaning of this License.
+
@item
VERBATIM COPYING
@@ -118,9 +148,10 @@ you may publicly display copies.
@item
COPYING IN QUANTITY
-If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than 100,
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-the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
+If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have
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Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
@@ -138,16 +169,15 @@ pages.
If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
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It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give
@@ -175,7 +205,8 @@ if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or 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).
+Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five),
+unless they release you from this requirement.
@item
State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
@@ -201,10 +232,10 @@ and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
Include an unaltered copy of this License.
@item
-Preserve the section entitled ``History'', and its title, and add to
-it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
+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
+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.
@@ -219,10 +250,10 @@ least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
@item
-In any section entitled ``Acknowledgments'' or ``Dedications'',
-preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the
-substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgments
-and/or dedications given therein.
+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.
@item
Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
@@ -230,12 +261,15 @@ unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
@item
-Delete any section entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section
+Delete any section Entitled ``Endorsements''. Such a section
may not be included in the Modified Version.
@item
-Do not retitle any existing section as ``Endorsements''
-or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
+Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled ``Endorsements'' or
+to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
+
+@item
+Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.
@end enumerate
If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
@@ -245,7 +279,7 @@ of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
-You may add a section entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains
+You may add a section Entitled ``Endorsements'', provided it contains
nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
parties---for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
@@ -273,7 +307,7 @@ License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
-license notice.
+license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.
The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
@@ -284,11 +318,11 @@ author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
-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 ``Acknowledgments'',
-and any sections entitled ``Dedications''. You must delete all sections
-entitled ``Endorsements.''
+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.''
@item
COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
@@ -309,18 +343,20 @@ AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
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+distribution medium, is called an ``aggregate'' if the copyright
+resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights
+of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit.
+When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not
+apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves
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If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
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-Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate.
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+Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole
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@item
TRANSLATION
@@ -331,21 +367,45 @@ Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
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+the translation and the original version of this License or a notice
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+
+If a section in the Document is Entitled ``Acknowledgements'',
+``Dedications'', or ``History'', the requirement (section 4) to Preserve
+its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual
+title.
@item
TERMINATION
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@item
FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
@@ -363,11 +423,46 @@ following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
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+as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document
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+
+@item
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+``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site'' (or ``MMC Site'') means any
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+``Incorporate'' means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
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+and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.
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@end enumerate
@page
-@appendixsubsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
+@heading ADDENDUM: 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
@@ -377,19 +472,28 @@ license notices just after the title page:
@group
Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{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 1.3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
- with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with the
- Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts being @var{list}.
- A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
+ 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''.
@end group
@end smallexample
-If you have no Invariant Sections, write ``with no Invariant Sections''
-instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no
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+If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
+replace the ``with@dots{}Texts.''@: line with this:
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+@smallexample
+@group
+ with the Invariant Sections being @var{list their titles}, with
+ the Front-Cover Texts being @var{list}, and with the Back-Cover Texts
+ being @var{list}.
+@end group
+@end smallexample
+
+If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
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+situation.
If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
diff --git a/manual/libc.texinfo b/manual/libc.texinfo
index 13a2b0d628..e57e4d31d1 100644
--- a/manual/libc.texinfo
+++ b/manual/libc.texinfo
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
@set UPDATED 2011-07-19
@set ISBN 1-882114-55-8
-@set FDL_VERSION 1.1
+@set FDL_VERSION 1.3
@copying
This file documents the GNU C library.