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1.1. Authorship and Copyright

This document is copyright (c) 2001 Peter Jay Salzman, <p@dirac.org>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Software License, Version 1.1, except for the provisions I list in the next paragraph. I hate HOWTO's that include the license; it's a tree killer. You can read the OSL at http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-1.1.txt.

If you want to create a derivative work or publish this HOWTO for commercial purposes, contact me first. This will give me a chance to give you the most recent version. I'd also appreciate either a copy of whatever it is you're doing or a spinach, garlic, mushroom, feta cheese and artichoke heart pizza.

1.2. Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mike Phillips who commented extensively on the howto. Thanks to Dmitry Samoyloff, <dsamoyloff@yandex.ru>, for translating this document into Russian. It blew my mind when he told me that he was translating my words to Russian. Further thanks goes to:

1. Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@Informatik.uni-bremen.de> for sending me updates (even if I'm eternally behind on them...)

2. Fridiric Delanoy for extensive diffs or correcting typos and docbook mistakes

1.3. Latest Versions and Translations

The latest version can be found at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lgh/LG-HOWTO or http://www.dirac.org/linux/writing, but this is my own personal working copy. The version at my personal web site might be broken if I'm working on the HOWTO. The version at sourceforge is bleeding edge but guaranteed to be not broken, however it may have glitches, like unfinished paragraphs. :)

The most recent stable version can be found at http://www.tldp.org.

Dmitry Samoyloff <dsamoyloff@mail.ru> is the maintainer of the Russian translation. The most recent version can be found at http://linuxgames.hut.ru/data/docs/HOWTO/LG-HOWTO-ru.html.