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Added initial draft of whitepaper rewrite
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Hopefully this improves the bus factor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

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23\chapter{\rlap{GNU Free Documentation License}}
24\phantomsection  % so hyperref creates bookmarks
25\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{GNU Free Documentation License}
26%\label{label_fdl}
27
28 \begin{center}
29
30       Version 1.2, November 2002
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32
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36 
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