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License for Manuals
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   Please use the GNU Free Documentation License for all GNU manuals
that are more than a few pages long.  Likewise for a collection of short
documents--you only need one copy of the GNU FDL for the whole
collection.  For a single short document, you can use a very permissive
non-copyleft license, to avoid taking up space with a long license.

   See `http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl-howto.html' for more explanation
of how to employ the GFDL.

   Note that it is not obligatory to include a copy of the GNU GPL or
GNU LGPL in a manual whose license is neither the GPL nor the LGPL.  It
can be a good idea to include the program's license in a large manual;
in a short manual, whose size would be increased considerably by
including the program's license, it is probably better not to include
it.