LINUX DOCUMENTATION PROJECT COPYING LICENSE
                                       
   Last modified 6 January 1997
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                            PUBLISHING LDP MANUALS
                                       
    If you're a publishing company interested in distributing any of the
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   By the license given in the previous section, anyone is allowed to
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   You may, of course, sell the LDP manuals for profit. We encourage you
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   We do not require to be paid royalties for any profit earned from
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   We would like to be informed of any plans to publish or distribute LDP
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   We encourage Linux software distributors to distribute the LDP manuals
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   bundling the LDP manuals with the software. As the LDP manuals mature,
   hopefully they will fulfill this goal more adequately.
   
   
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    Matt Welsh, mdw@sunsite.unc.edu