Dominik Riebeling | 5129b41 | 2006-12-17 11:54:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | GNU Free Documentation License |
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| 11 | 0. PREAMBLE |
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| 176 | 4. MODIFICATIONS |
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| 261 | 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS |
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| 286 | 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS |
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| 300 | 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS |
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| 320 | 8. TRANSLATION |
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