Preface

Table of Contents
1. Legal Notice
2. About Mandrake Linux
2.1. Contact Mandrake Community
2.2. Support Mandrake
2.3. Purchasing Mandrake Products
3. Authors And Translators
4. Tools Used in The Making of This Manual
5. Note From The Editor
6. Conventions Used in This Book
6.1. Typing Conventions
6.2. General Conventions
7. Introduction

1. Legal Notice

This manual (except the chapter listed below) is protected under MandrakeSoft intellectual property rights. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the invariant sections being About Mandrake Linux, with the front-cover texts being listed below, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section GNU Free Documentation License.

Front-cover texts:

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Copyright © 1999,2000,2001,2002 by MandrakeSoft S.A. and MandrakeSoft Inc.

Note

The chapter quoted in the table below is subject to another copyright owner than the whole manual and a slightly different license:

 Original CopyrightLicense
"Building and installing free software"Benjamin Drieu, APRIL GNU Free Documentation License with no Invariant Sections no Front-Cover Texts nor Back-Cover Texts.

"Mandrake", "Mandrake Linux" and "MandrakeSoft" are registered trademarks of MandrakeSoft S.A.; Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds; UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.


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