Appendix Q. Copyright

The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is copyright © 2000, by Mendel Cooper. The author also asserts copyright on all previous versions of this document. [1]

This blanket copyright recognizes and protects the rights of all contributors to this document.

This document may only be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License (version 1.0 or later), http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/. The following license options also apply.

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    HOWEVER, in the event that the author or maintainer of this document
    cannot be contacted, the Linux Documentation Project will have the right
    to take over custodianship of the document and name a new maintainer,
    who would then have the right to update and modify the document.

B.  This document may NOT be distributed encrypted or with any form of
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C.  Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard
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Provision A, above, explicitly prohibits relabeling this document. An example of relabeling is the insertion of company logos or navigation bars into the cover, title page, or the text. The author grants the following exemptions.

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Without explicit written permission from the author, distributors and publishers (including on-line publishers) are prohibited from imposing any additional conditions, strictures, or provisions on this document or any previous version of it. As of this update, the author asserts that he has not entered into any contractual obligations that would alter the foregoing declarations.

Essentially, you may freely distribute this book in unaltered electronic form. You must obtain the author's permission to distribute a substantially modified version or derivative work. The purpose of this restriction is to preserve the artistic integrity of this document and to prevent "forking."

If you display or distribute this document or any previous version thereof under any license except the one above, then you are required to obtain the author's written permission. Failure to do so may terminate your distribution rights.

These are very liberal terms, and they should not hinder any legitimate distribution or use of this book. The author especially encourages the use of this book for classroom and instructional purposes.

Certain of the scripts contained in this document are, where noted, released into the Public Domain. These scripts are exempt from the foregoing license and copyright restrictions.

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Hyun Jin Cha has done a Korean translation of version 1.0.11 of this book. Spanish, Portuguese, French, (another French), German, Italian, Russian, Czech, Chinese, and Dutch translations are also available or in progress. If you wish to translate this document into another language, please feel free to do so, subject to the terms stated above. The author wishes to be notified of such efforts.