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This document is the original user guide of the described software |qg|.
The software and hardware described in this document are in most cases registered
trademarks and are therefore subject to the legal requirements. |qg| is
subject to the GNU General Public License. Find more information on the |qg| 
Homepage http://www.qgis.org.

The details, data, results etc. in this document have been written and verified
to the best of knowledge and responsibility of the authors and editors.
Nevertheless, mistakes concerning the content are possible.

Therefore, all data are not liable to any duties or guarantees. The authors,
editors and publishers do not take any responsibility or liability for failures
and their consequences. You are always welcome to indicate possible mistakes.

This document has been typeset with reStructuredText. It is available as reST
source code via `github <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation>`_ and
online as HTML and PDF via http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/. Translated versions of
this document can be downloaded in several formats via the documentation area of
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**Links in this Document**

This document contains internal and external links. Clicking on an internal
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**User, Installation and Coding Guide Authors and Editors:**

+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Tara Athan         | Radim Blazek        | Godofredo Contreras  | Otto Dassau          | Martin Dobias        |
+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Peter Ersts        | Anne Ghisla         | Stephan Holl         | N\. Horning          | Magnus Homann        |
+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Werner Macho       | Carson J.Q. Farmer  | Tyler Mitchell       | K\. Koy              | Lars Luthman         |
+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Claudia A. Engel   | Brendan Morely      | David Willis         | Jürgen E. Fischer    | Marco Hugentobler    |
+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Larissa Junek      | Diethard Jansen     | Paolo Corti          | Gavin Macaulay       | Gary E. Sherman      |
+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Tim Sutton         | Alex Bruy           | Raymond Nijssen      | Richard Duivenvoorde | Andreas Neumann      |
+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Astrid Emde        | Yves Jacolin        | Alexandre Neto       | Andy Schmid          | Hien Tran-Quang      |
+--------------------+---------------------+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

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published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in
Appendix :ref:`gfl_appendix`.