old-www/HOWTO/Indic-Fonts-HOWTO/fdl-preamble.html

169 lines
3.1 KiB
HTML

<HTML
><HEAD
><TITLE
>0. PREAMBLE</TITLE
><META
NAME="GENERATOR"
CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63
"><LINK
REL="HOME"
TITLE="The Indic Fonts HOWTO"
HREF="index.html"><LINK
REL="UP"
TITLE="GNU Free Documentation License"
HREF="fdl.html"><LINK
REL="PREVIOUS"
TITLE="GNU Free Documentation License"
HREF="fdl.html"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
TITLE="1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS"
HREF="fdl-section1.html"></HEAD
><BODY
CLASS="sect1"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
TEXT="#000000"
LINK="#0000FF"
VLINK="#840084"
ALINK="#0000FF"
><DIV
CLASS="NAVHEADER"
><TABLE
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TH
COLSPAN="3"
ALIGN="center"
>The Indic Fonts HOWTO</TH
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="fdl.html"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="80%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="bottom"
>A. GNU Free Documentation License</TD
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="fdl-section1.html"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect1"
><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="fdl-preamble"
>A.1. 0. PREAMBLE</A
></H1
><P
>&#13; The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or
other written document <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"free"</SPAN
> 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.
</P
><P
>&#13; This License is a kind of <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"copyleft"</SPAN
>, which means
that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in
the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License,
which is a copyleft license designed for free software.
</P
><P
>&#13; We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for
free software, because free software needs free documentation: a
free program should come with manuals providing the same
freedoms that the software does. But this License is not limited
to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work,
regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a
printed book. We recommend this License principally for works
whose purpose is instruction or reference.
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="fdl.html"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="index.html"
>Home</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="fdl-section1.html"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
>GNU Free Documentation License</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="fdl.html"
>Up</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
>1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></BODY
></HTML
>