Proper copyright, disclaimer of warranty WRT the GNU GPL

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<revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
<date>2003-11-05</date>
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<revremark>first formatting of consensus TOC</revremark>
<revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
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inner workings.
</para>
<para>
Document last updated $Date$.
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<title>Keeping up to date</title>
<para>How to get new versions of this document.</para>
<para>
New versions of this document that are released would be
available from The LDP website and its mirrors. Since a few
mirrors are broken or not up-to-date, it is highly recommended
that the latest released version be accessed from <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/GNU-Build-System-HOWTO/">
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/GNU-Build-System-HOWTO/</ulink>. The
latest in-progress version of this document is available at
the <ulink
url="http://www.pratapgarh.com/appaji/interests/freedom-sw/gbsh.html">
GNU-Build-System HOWTO home page</ulink>.
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<title>Copyright and License</title>
<title>Copyright and license</title>
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This document, the <emphasis>GNU-Build-System HOWTO</emphasis>, is
copyrighted (c) 2003 by <emphasis>Y Giridhar Appaji Nag</emphasis>
and <emphasis>Mark Hoebeke</emphasis>. Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
the GNU Public License, Version 2 or any later version published
by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with
no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the
Copyright &copy; 2003, <emphasis>Mark Hoebeke</emphasis> and
<emphasis>Y Giridhar Appaji Nag</emphasis>, and is distributed
under the terms of the <citetitle>GNU General Public
License</citetitle>. The word <emphasis>program</emphasis> in the
license is to be interpreted as <emphasis>document</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the <link linkend="gpl">
<citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle></link> as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of the
license is available at <ulink
url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt">
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt</ulink> and can be found in
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</para>
<para>Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. </para>
<para>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA
</para>
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<para>
No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted.
Use the concepts, examples and information at your own risk.
There may be errors and inaccuracies, that could be damaging to
your system. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly
unlikely, the author(s) do not take any responsibility.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
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<para>
Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Send your
additions, comments and criticisms to the following email
addresses : <email>xxx@xxx.xxx</email>.
Comments and suggestions for improvement (including patches to the
original DocBook/XML sources) are welcome. Send your comments to
the following email address:
<email>mark{dot}hoebeke{at}orange{dot}fr</email> and
<email>yganag{at}users{dot}sf{dot}net</email>.
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</appendix>
</article>
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