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Copyright Notice and Publication License This copyright notice concerns the online and packaged version of: Scribus Help Manual, by Peter Linnell with the assistance of Franz Schmid, the main programmer of Scribus. Further additions by the rest of the Scribus team composed of Craig Bradney, Jean Ghali, Hermann Kraus, Riku Leino, Oleksandr Moskalenko, Craig Ringer, Christoph Schäfer, Petr Vanek, Andreas Vox). The FreedomYug tutorial on docs.scribus.net, and "PDF Forms and PHP" page are licensed under the Free Documentation License which can be viewed by going to the first page of the FreedomYug tutorial section and clicking on the FDL link. The FDL applies ONLY to this section of the documentation.  The online help manual (excluding the aforementioned FreedomYug tutorial and "PDF Form and PHP" page) is distributed under the Open Publication License guidelines described at .  The following is the text of the license as it applies to this work:  I. REQUIREMENTS ON BOTH UNMODIFIED AND MODIFIED VERSIONS  This on-line help manual "Scribus Help Manual" may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, in any medium physical or electronic, provided that the terms of this license are adhered to, and that this license or an incorporation of it by reference is displayed in the reproduction. Proper form for an incorporation by reference is as follows: Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Peter Linnell and Franz Schmid, 2006-2009 The Scribus Team. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at ). The reference must be immediately followed with the elected options (see section VI). Commercial redistribution of Open Publication-licensed material is permitted.

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