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<h1 class="chapter">8. About SLIB</h1>

<p>More people than I can name have contributed to SLIB.  Thanks to all of
you!
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<blockquote><p>SLIB 3b1, released June 2010.<br>
Aubrey Jaffer &lt;agj @ alum.mit.edu&gt;<br>
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<p>Current information about SLIB can be found on SLIB&rsquo;s <em>WWW</em> home
page:
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<h3 class="subsection">8.1.1 Unpacking the SLIB Distribution</h3>

<p>If the SLIB distribution is a GNU/Linux RPM, it will create the SLIB
directory &lsquo;<tt>/usr/share/slib</tt>&rsquo;.
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<p>If the SLIB distribution is a ZIP file, unzip the distribution to create
the SLIB directory.  Locate this &lsquo;<tt>slib</tt>&rsquo; directory either in your
home directory (if only you will use this SLIB installation); or put it
in a location where libraries reside on your system.  On unix systems
this might be &lsquo;<tt>/usr/share/slib</tt>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<tt>/usr/local/lib/slib</tt>&rsquo;, or
&lsquo;<tt>/usr/lib/slib</tt>&rsquo;.  If you know where SLIB should go on other
platforms, please inform agj @ alum.mit.edu.
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<a name="index-slib"></a>
<a name="index-script"></a>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">make infoz
make install
</pre></td></tr></table>

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<h3 class="subsection">8.1.3 Configure Scheme Implementation to Locate SLIB</h3>

<p>If the Scheme implementation supports <code>getenv</code>, then the value of
the shell environment variable <var>SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH</var> will be used
for <code>(library-vicinity)</code> if it is defined.  Currently, Bigloo,
Chez, Elk, Gambit, Guile, Jscheme, Larceny, MITScheme, MzScheme,
RScheme, STk, VSCM, and SCM support <code>getenv</code>.  Scheme48 supports
<code>getenv</code> but does not use it for determining
<code>library-vicinity</code>.  (That is done from the Makefile.)
</p>
<p>The <code>(library-vicinity)</code> can also be set from the SLIB
initialization file or by implementation-specific means.
</p>
<p>Support for locating an implementation&rsquo;s auxiliary directory is uneven
among implementations.  Also, the person installing SLIB may not have
write permission to some of these directories (necessary for writing
slibcat).  Therefore, those implementations supporting <code>getenv</code>
(except SCM and Scheme48) provide a means for specifying the
<code>implementation-vicinity</code> through environment variables.  Define
the indicated environment variable to the pathname (with trailing
slash or backslash) of the desired directory.  Do not use &lsquo;<tt>slib/</tt>&rsquo;
as an implementation-vicinity!
</p>
<table>
<tr><td width="30%">Bigloo</td><td width="70%">BIGLOO_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">Chez</td><td width="70%">CHEZ_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">ELK</td><td width="70%">ELK_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">Gambit</td><td width="70%">GAMBIT_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">Guile</td><td width="70%">GUILE_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">Jscheme</td><td width="70%">JSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">MIT-Scheme</td><td width="70%">MITSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">MzScheme</td><td width="70%">MZSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">RScheme</td><td width="70%">RSCHEME_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">STk</td><td width="70%">STK_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">Vscm</td><td width="70%">VSCM_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH</td></tr>
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<p>Check the manifest in &lsquo;<tt>README</tt>&rsquo; to find a configuration file for
your Scheme implementation.  Initialization files for most IEEE P1178
compliant Scheme Implementations are included with this distribution.
</p>
<p>You should check the definitions of <code>software-type</code>,
<code>scheme-implementation-version</code>,
<code>implementation-vicinity</code>,
and <code>library-vicinity</code> in the initialization file.  There are
comments in the file for how to configure it.
</p>
<p>Once this is done, modify the startup file for your Scheme
implementation to <code>load</code> this initialization file.
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<h3 class="subsection">8.1.5 Build New SLIB Catalog for Implementation</h3>

<p>When SLIB is first used from an implementation, a file named
&lsquo;<tt>slibcat</tt>&rsquo; is written to the <code>implementation-vicinity</code> for that
implementation.  Because users may lack permission to write in
<code>implementation-vicinity</code>, it is good practice to build the new
catalog when installing SLIB.
</p>
<p>To build (or rebuild) the catalog, start the Scheme implementation (with
SLIB), then:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">(require 'new-catalog)
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>The catalog also supports color-name dictionaries.  With an
SLIB-installed scheme implementation, type:
</p><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">(require 'color-names)
(make-slib-color-name-db)
(require 'new-catalog)
(slib:exit)
</pre></td></tr></table>

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<p>Multiple implementations of Scheme can all use the same SLIB directory.
Simply configure each implementation&rsquo;s initialization file as outlined
above.
</p>

<dl>
<dt><a name="index-SCM"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>SCM</b></dt>
<dd><p>The SCM implementation does not require any initialization file as SLIB
support is already built into SCM.  See the documentation with SCM for
installation instructions.
</p></dd></dl>

<dl>
<dt><a name="index-Larceny"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>Larceny</b></dt>
<dd><p>Starting with version 0.96, Larceny contains its own SLIB
initialization file, loaded by <code>(require 'srfi-96)</code>.  If
SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH is not set, then Larceny looks for an &lsquo;<tt>slib</tt>&rsquo;
subdirectory of a directory in the list returned by
<code>(current-require-path)</code>
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">larceny -- -e &quot;(require 'srfi-96)&quot;
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>

<dl>
<dt><a name="index-ELK"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>ELK</b></dt>
<dd><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">elk -i -l ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}elk.init
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>


<dl>
<dt><a name="index-PLT-Scheme"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>PLT Scheme</b></dt>
<dt><a name="index-DrScheme"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>DrScheme</b></dt>
<dt><a name="index-MzScheme"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>MzScheme</b></dt>
<dd>
<p>The &lsquo;<tt>init.ss</tt>&rsquo; file in the _slibinit_ collection is an SLIB
initialization file.  To run SLIB in MzScheme:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">mzscheme -f ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}mzscheme.init
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>


<dl>
<dt><a name="index-MIT-Scheme"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>MIT Scheme</b></dt>
<dd><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">scheme -load ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}mitscheme.init
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>


<dl>
<dt><a name="index-Gambit_002dC-3_002e0"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>Gambit-C 3.0</b></dt>
<dd><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">gsi -:s ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}gambit.init -
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>


<dl>
<dt><a name="index-SISC"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>SISC</b></dt>
<dd><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">sisc -e &quot;(load \&quot;${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}sisc.init\&quot;)&quot; --
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>


<dl>
<dt><a name="index-Kawa"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>Kawa</b></dt>
<dd><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">kawa -f ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}kawa.init --
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>


<dl>
<dt><a name="index-Guile"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>Guile</b></dt>
<dd><p>Guile versions 1.6 and earlier link to an archaic SLIB version.  In
RedHat or Fedora installations:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">rm /usr/share/guile/slib
ln -s ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH} /usr/share/guile/slib
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>In Debian installations:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">rm /usr/share/guile/1.6/slib
ln -s ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH} /usr/share/guile/1.6/slib
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p><code>${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}</code> is where SLIB gets installed.
</p>
<p>Guile with SLIB can then be started thus:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">guile -l ${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH}guile.init
</pre></td></tr></table>
</dd></dl>


<dl>
<dt><a name="index-Scheme48"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>Scheme48</b></dt>
<dd><p>To make a Scheme48 image for an installation under <code>&lt;prefix&gt;</code>,
</p>
<ol>
<li>
<code>cd</code> to the SLIB directory
</li><li>
type <code>make prefix=&lt;prefix&gt; slib48</code>.
</li><li>
To install the image, type <code>make prefix=&lt;prefix&gt; install48</code>.  This
will also create a shell script with the name <code>slib48</code> which will
invoke the saved image.
</li></ol>
</dd></dl>

<dl>
<dt><a name="index-VSCM"></a><u>Implementation:</u> <b>VSCM</b></dt>
<dd><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="format">From: Matthias Blume &lt;blume @ cs.Princeton.EDU&gt;
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 11:42:31 -0500
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Disclaimer: The code below is only a quick hack.  If I find some time
to spare I might get around to make some more things work.
</p>
<p>You have to provide &lsquo;<tt>vscm.init</tt>&rsquo; as an explicit command line
argument.  Since this is not very nice I would recommend the following
installation procedure:
</p>
<ol>
<li>
run scheme
</li><li>
<code>(load &quot;vscm.init&quot;)</code>
</li><li>
<code>(slib:dump &quot;dumpfile&quot;)</code>
</li><li>
mv dumpfile place-where-vscm-standard-bootfile-resides.  For example:

<p><code>mv dumpfile /usr/local/vscm/lib/scheme-boot</code>
</p>
<p>In this case vscm should have been compiled with flag:
</p>
<p>-DDEFAULT_BOOTFILE=&rsquo;&quot;/usr/local/vscm/lib/scheme-boot&quot;&rsquo;
</p>
<p>See Makefile (definition of DDP) for details.
</p></li></ol>
</dd></dl>

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<h2 class="section">8.2 The SLIB script</h2>

<p>SLIB comes with shell script for Unix platforms.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example"><b> slib </b> [ scheme | scm | gsi | mzscheme | guile
       | scheme48 | scmlit | elk | sisc | kawa ]
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Starts an interactive Scheme-with-SLIB session.
</p>
<p>The optional argument to the <code>slib</code> script is the Scheme
implementation to run.  Absent the argument, it searches for
implementations in the above order.
</p>

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<p>If there is no initialization file for your Scheme implementation, you
will have to create one.  Your Scheme implementation must be largely
compliant with
</p><table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="lisp"><cite>IEEE Std 1178-1990</cite>,
<cite>Revised^4 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme</cite>, or
<cite>Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme</cite>
</pre></td></tr></table>
<p>in order to support SLIB.  <a name="DOCF8" href="slib_fot.html#FOOT8">(8)</a>
</p>
<p>&lsquo;<tt>Template.scm</tt>&rsquo; is an example configuration file.  The comments
inside will direct you on how to customize it to reflect your system.
Give your new initialization file the implementation&rsquo;s name with
&lsquo;<tt>.init</tt>&rsquo; appended.  For instance, if you were porting
<code>foo-scheme</code> then the initialization file might be called
&lsquo;<tt>foo.init</tt>&rsquo;.
</p>
<p>Your customized version should then be loaded as part of your scheme
implementation&rsquo;s initialization.  It will load &lsquo;<tt>require.scm</tt>&rsquo; from
the library; this will allow the use of <code>provide</code>,
<code>provided?</code>, and <code>require</code> along with the <em>vicinity</em>
functions (these functions are documented in the sections
<a href="slib_1.html#Feature">Feature</a> and <a href="slib_1.html#Require">Require</a>).  The rest of the library will then
be accessible in a system independent fashion.
</p>
<p>Please mail new working configuration files to <code>agj @ alum.mit.edu</code>
so that they can be included in the SLIB distribution.
</p>

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<p>All library packages are written in IEEE P1178 Scheme and assume that a
configuration file and &lsquo;<tt>require.scm</tt>&rsquo; package have already been
loaded.  Other versions of Scheme can be supported in library packages
as well by using, for example, <code>(provided? 'r3rs)</code> or
<code>(require 'r3rs)</code> (see section <a href="slib_1.html#Require">Require</a>).
<a name="index-r3rs-2"></a>
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<p>If a procedure defined in a module is called by other procedures in
that module, then those procedures should instead call an alias
defined in that module:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="lisp">(define module-name:foo foo)
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>The module name and &lsquo;<samp>:</samp>&rsquo; should prefix that symbol for the
internal name.  Do not export internal aliases.
</p>
<p>A procedure is exported from a module by putting Schmooz-style
comments (see section <a href="slib_4.html#Schmooz">Schmooz</a>) or &lsquo;<samp>;@</samp>&rsquo; at the beginning of the line
immediately preceding the definition (<code>define</code>,
<code>define-syntax</code>, or <code>defmacro</code>).  Modules, exports and other
relevant issues are discussed in <a href="slib_1.html#Compiling-Scheme">Compiling Scheme</a>.
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<p>Code submitted for inclusion in SLIB should not duplicate (more than
one) routines already in SLIB files.  Use <code>require</code> to force
those library routines to be used by your package.
</p>
<p>Documentation should be provided in Emacs Texinfo format if possible,
but documentation must be provided.
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<p>Your package will be released sooner with SLIB if you send me a file
which tests your code.  Please run this test <em>before</em> you send me
the code!
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<p>Please document your changes.  A line or two for &lsquo;<tt>ChangeLog</tt>&rsquo; is
sufficient for simple fixes or extensions.  Look at the format of
&lsquo;<tt>ChangeLog</tt>&rsquo; to see what information is desired.  Please send me
<code>diff</code> files from the latest SLIB distribution (remember to send
<code>diff</code>s of &lsquo;<tt>slib.texi</tt>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<tt>ChangeLog</tt>&rsquo;).  This makes for
less email traffic and makes it easier for me to integrate when more
than one person is changing a file (this happens a lot with
&lsquo;<tt>slib.texi</tt>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>*.init</samp>&rsquo; files).
</p>
<p>If someone else wrote a package you want to significantly modify, please
try to contact the author, who may be working on a new version.  This
will insure against wasting effort on obsolete versions.
</p>
<p>Please <em>do not</em> reformat the source code with your favorite
beautifier, make 10 fixes, and send me the resulting source code.  I do
not have the time to fish through 10000 diffs to find your 10 real fixes.
</p>

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<p>&lt;A NAME=&quot;Copyrights&quot;&gt;&lt;/A&gt;
</p>
<p>This section has instructions for SLIB authors regarding copyrights.
<a name="index-copyright"></a>
</p>
<p>Each package in SLIB must either be in the public domain, or come with a
statement of terms permitting users to copy, redistribute and modify it.
The comments at the beginning of &lsquo;<tt>require.scm</tt>&rsquo; and
&lsquo;<tt>macwork.scm</tt>&rsquo; illustrate copyright and appropriate terms.
</p>
<p>If your code or changes amount to less than about 10 lines, you do not
need to add your copyright or send a disclaimer.
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<h3 class="subsection">8.5.1 Putting code into the Public Domain</h3>

<p>In order to put code in the public domain you should sign a copyright
disclaimer and send it to the SLIB maintainer.  Contact
agj @ alum.mit.edu for the address to mail the disclaimer to.
</p>
<blockquote><p>I, <var>&lt;my-name&gt;</var>, hereby affirm that I have placed the software
package <var>&lt;name&gt;</var> in the public domain.
</p>
<p>I affirm that I am the sole author and sole copyright holder for the
software package, that I have the right to place this software package
in the public domain, and that I will do nothing to undermine this
status in the future.
</p><p align="right">                                        <var>signature and date</var>
</p></blockquote>

<p>This wording assumes that you are the sole author.  If you are not the
sole author, the wording needs to be different.  If you don&rsquo;t want to
be bothered with sending a letter every time you release or modify a
module, make your letter say that it also applies to your future
revisions of that module.
</p>
<p>Make sure no employer has any claim to the copyright on the work you
are submitting.  If there is any doubt, create a copyright disclaimer
and have your employer sign it.  Mail the signed disclaimer to the
SLIB maintainer.  Contact agj @ alum.mit.edu for the address to mail
the disclaimer to.  An example disclaimer follows.
</p>
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<p>If you submit more than about 10 lines of code which you are not
placing into the Public Domain (by sending me a disclaimer) you need
to:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Arrange that your name appears in a copyright line for the appropriate
year.  Multiple copyright lines are acceptable.
</li><li>
With your copyright line, specify any terms you require to be
different from those already in the file.
</li><li>
Make sure no employer has any claim to the copyright on the work you
are submitting.  If there is any doubt, create a copyright disclaimer
and have your employer sign it.  Mail the signed disclaim to the SLIB
maintainer.  Contact agj @ alum.mit.edu for the address to mail the
disclaimer to.
</li></ul>

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<p>This disclaimer should be signed by a vice president or general
manager of the company.  If you can&rsquo;t get at them, anyone else
authorized to license out software produced there will do.  Here is a
sample wording:
</p>
<blockquote><p><var>&lt;employer&gt;</var> Corporation hereby disclaims all copyright
interest in the program <var>&lt;program&gt;</var> written by <var>&lt;name&gt;</var>.
</p>
<p><var>&lt;employer&gt;</var> Corporation affirms that it has no other intellectual
property interest that would undermine this release, and will do
nothing to undermine it in the future.
</p>
<p align="left"><var>&lt;signature and date&gt;</var>,
<var>&lt;name&gt;</var>, <var>&lt;title&gt;</var>, <var>&lt;employer&gt;</var> Corporation
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<ul>
<li>
Entries that are labeled as Functions are called for their return
values.  Entries that are labeled as Procedures are called primarily for
their side effects.

</li><li>
Examples in this text were produced using the <code>scm</code> Scheme
implementation.

</li><li>
At the beginning of each section, there is a line that looks like:
<a name="index-feature-2"></a>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">(require 'feature)
</pre></td></tr></table>
<p>Include this line in your code prior to using the package.
</p></li></ul>

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<p align="center"> Version 1.2, November 2002
</p>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="display">Copyright &copy; 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA

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<ol>
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Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five),
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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
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least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
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For any section Entitled &ldquo;Acknowledgements&rdquo; or &ldquo;Dedications&rdquo;, Preserve
the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the
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dedications given therein.

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copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
of these sections as invariant.  To do this, add their titles to the
list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version&rsquo;s license notice.
These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
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nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
parties&mdash;for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
standard.
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Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
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in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled
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and any sections Entitled &ldquo;Dedications&rdquo;.  You must delete all
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<a name="ADDENDUM_003a-How-to-use-this-License-for-your-documents"></a>
<h2 class="heading">ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents</h2>

<p>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
license notices just after the title page:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="smallexample">  Copyright (C)  <var>year</var>  <var>your name</var>.
  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
  or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
  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''.
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
replace the &ldquo;with&hellip;Texts.&rdquo; line with this:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="smallexample">    with the Invariant Sections being <var>list their titles</var>, with
    the Front-Cover Texts being <var>list</var>, and with the Back-Cover Texts
    being <var>list</var>.
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the
situation.
</p>
<p>If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
to permit their use in free software.
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