Dette er en uofficiel dansk oversættelse af GNU Free Documentation License. Denne oversættelse er ikke offentliggjort af Free Software Foundation og er ikke en juridisk beskrivelse af forhold, der gør sig gældende for materiale distribueret under GNU FDL -- det er kun den originale engelske version af GNU FDL (se: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ). Det er dog vores håb, at denne oversættelse vil hjælpe dansktalende til at forstå GNU FDL bedre.
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GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2, November 2002
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Hvis du vil bruge denne licens til et dokument, du har skrevet, så skal du medtage en kopi af licenses i dokumentet og placere den følgende ophavsretsnotits og licensnoter lige efter titelbladet:
Copyright ©årstal dit navn. Tilladelse gives til at kopiere, formidle og/eller ændre dette dokument inden for rammerne af the GNU Free Documentation License, udgave 1.2 eller senere som udgivet af the Free Software Foundation; uden invariantafsnit, uden forsidetekster og uden bagsidetekster. En kopi af denne licens medfølger i afsnittet: GNU Free Documentation License.
Hvis du har Invariantafsnit, forsidetekster og bagsidetekster, skal du erstatte "uden invariantafsnit ... tekster" linien med:
med invariantafsnit: ..nævn afsnittene, med forsidetekster: ..nævn dem, med bagsidetekster: nævn dem.
Hvis du har Invariantafsnit uden forsidetekster eller en kombination af de tre muligheder, skal du flette de to alternativer for at tilpasse dig mulighederne.
Hvis dit dokument indeholder ikke-trivielle eksempler på programkode, anbefaler vi at udgive disse parallelt og med dit valg af programlicens, f.eks. GNU General Public License, hvilkeet muliggør brugen af dit program som et frit program.