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This package was created Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:19:33 -0700 by
Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>.
It was downloaded from ftp://manual.gimp.org/pub/manual/ .
The copyright follows:
GUM v.1.0.0
_________________________________________________________________
Legalities
The Gimp user manual may be reproduced and distributed, subject to the
following conditions:
Copyright (C) 1997 1998 by Karin Kylander
Copyright (C) 1998 by Olof S Kylander
E-mail: karin@frozenriver.ale.se (summer 98 karin@frozenriver.com)
The Gimp User Manual is an open document; you may reproduce it under
the terms of the Graphic Documentation Project Copying Licence (aka
GDPL) as published by Frozenriver.
This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Graphic
Documentation Project Copying License for more details.
Graphic Documentation Project Copying License
The following copyright license applies to all works by the Graphic
Documentation Project. Please read the license carefully---it is
similar to the GNU General Public License, but there are several
conditions in it that differ from what you may be used to.
The Graphic Documentation Project manuals may be reproduced and
distributed in whole, subject to the following conditions:
All Graphic Documentation Project manuals are copyrighted by their
respective authors. THEY ARE NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
* The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be
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* All work done under the Graphic Documentation Project Copying
License must be available in source code for anyone who wants to
obtain it. The source code for a work means the preferred form of
the work for making modifications to it. For a manual this means
the the preferred format for the program that the author has used
to create the work in.
* Any translation or derivative work of Graphic Documentation
Project manuals that is published in any form must be approved by
the author before distribution. All alterations of the original
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modifications to images, adding or removing text etc. is
considered derivative work.
* Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or
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citation is given.
* If you have permission to make a translation or derivative work of
a manual, then the preferred source code of the work must be made
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Copying License.
This license is based on the Linux Documentation Project Copying
License
Printing guidelines
Whoever wishes to print this manual for commercial purposes it is free
to do so, as long as it is made in accordance with the GDPL licence.
However, if you would like to distribute a translation or derivative
work based on a GDP manual, you must obtain permission from the author
before doing so.
As the authors of this manual we naturally want such a publication to
be a high quality product. We therefore encourage interested parties
to contact us before printing. If you do publish the Gimp User Manual,
we would appreciate if you would send us a copy, so we can review it
at our website www.frozenriver.com. If you don't, we can't encourage
anyone to buy it.
If someone wants to cooperate with Frozenriver to make a printed
version, then this version will be given Official status as the
certified GUM publication which is supported and approved by the
authors. This will be mentioned at our website and also stated on the
cover. The official version will also include a color calibration kit.
You may ask yourself why this issue is so important? The reason for
our concern is that GUM is not an ordinary user manual for some shell
utility, mail reader etc. but for an advanced image manipulation
program. The manual contains more than 400 informative images which
are necessary for grasping the context. There are for example certain
chapters, where crucial images would be rendered meaningless in b/w or
in a low resolution printing. These facts alone make it very important
that a printed edition should raise, not lower the standard of the
on-line version. Another reason is that we at Frozenriver wrote this
manual to provide all Gimp users with free information, but also to
show that our work stands for high quality, and we do not wish to be
associated with a product that might damage that impression.
You may also bear in mind that we do not consider the PS, PDP, FM or
HTML versions to be ready for commercial printing. The Gimp User
Manual will need further editing and proofing before it's ready for
commercial printing.
We hope that you can respect our wishes .
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