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PREAMBLE |
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MAINTENANCE OF THE WORK |
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WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE WORKS UNDER THIS LICENSE |
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This section contains important instructions, examples, and |
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recommendations for authors who are considering distributing their |
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Choosing This License or Another License |
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How to Use This License |
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To use this license, place in each of the components of your work both |
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% This Current Maintainer of this work is M. Y. Name. |
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Given such a notice and statement in a file, the conditions |
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to the three files `pig.dtx', `pig.ins', and `pig.sty' (the last being |
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generated from `pig.dtx' using `pig.ins'), the `Base Interpreter' |
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referring to any "LaTeX-Format", and both `Copyright Holder' and |
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`Current Maintainer' referring to the person `M. Y. Name'. |
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To prevent the Maintenance section of LPPL from allowing someone else |
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to become the Current Maintainer without your agreement, you could |
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Important Recommendations |
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Defining What Constitutes the Work |
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The LPPL requires that distributions of the Work contain all the |
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