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Update manpage with license and pointers to Inform6 language documentation.
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Modules cannot be used with Glulx and are deprecated for Z-Machine.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.SH DOCUMENTATION
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The canonical documentation for \fBInform6\fP is the
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\fBInform_Designer's Manual\fP. This work can be browsed at
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.RI < http://inform-fiction.org/manual/html/contents.html >
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downloaded from
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.RI < http://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf >
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and purchased in hardcopy at
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.RI < http://amazon.com/ >
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Another noteworthy and somewhat more up-to-date resource is the
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\fBInform Beginner's Guide\fP. This work can be downloaded at
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.RI < http://inform-fiction.org/manual/download_ibg.html >
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.IR zcode-interpreter (6)
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and the manuals and language reference which can be found online at
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This manpage was written by Jan Nordholz <[email protected]>
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for the Debian Project and altered by David Griffith <[email protected]>.
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.SH DISTRIBUTION
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The compiler and standard library for \fBInform6\fP are licensed under
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.IP 1)
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The traditional Inform license as described by the DM4, or
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.IP 2)
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The Artistic License 2.0 .
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.RE
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Here is the relevant bit from the Inform Designer's Manual, 4th edition:
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Copyright on Inform, the program and its source code, its example games
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and documentation (including this book) is retained by Graham Nelson,
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who asserts the moral right to be identified as the author under the
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Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Having said this, I am happy
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for it to be freely distributed to anybody who wants a copy, provided
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that: (a) distributed copies are not substantially different from those
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archived by the author, (b) this and other copyright messages are always
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retained in full, and (c) no profit is involved. (Exceptions to these
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rules must be negotiated directly with the author.) However, a story
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file produced with the Inform compiler (and libraries) then belongs to
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its author, and may be sold for profit if desired, provided that its
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game banner contains the information that it was compiled by Inform, and
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the Inform version number.
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The Artistic License 2.0 can be found at
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https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0
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and the file \fBARTISTIC\fP in the \fBInform6\fP distribution archive.

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