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  <sect1 id="legal-info-note">
   <title>Legal Information and Licensing</title>

<!-- normally this content belongs in the actual "legalnotice" tag,
     but for formatting reasons putting it in a sect1, inside the
     Preface, and adding a paragraph to the beginning of it -->

    <note id="evo-is-free-software">
      <title>Ximian Evolution is Free Software</title>
      <para>
        Ximian Evolution is licensed under the terms of the GNU General
        Public License (GPL), and its documentation is licensed
        separately
        under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).  You can find a the
        complete text of the GPL in <xref linkend="apx-gpl" />, and of the
        GFDL in <xref linkend="apx-fdl"/>. The licenses are also available
        in the files COPYING and COPYING-DOCS distributed with this
        software. The Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange 2000 is
        proprietary software and is subject to a different license. Copyright
        for all three pieces of software and their documentation belongs to
        Novell, Inc.
      </para>
    </note>
    <para>

      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
      License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published
      by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections,
      no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  You can find
      a copy of the GFDL in <xref linkend="apx-fdl"/> or in the
      file COPYING-DOCS distributed with this manual.
         </para>
         <para> This manual is part of a collection of GNOME manuals
          distributed under the GFDL.  If you want to distribute this
          manual separately from the collection, you can do so by
          adding a copy of the license to the manual, as described in
          section 6 of the license.
    </para>

    <para>
          Ximian is a registered trademark and Ximian Evolution, the
      dancing monkey logo and the Ximian capsule logo are
      trademarks of Ximian, Inc. Other names may be trademarks or
      registered trademarks of other companies or
      organizations. Where those names appear in any GNOME
      documentation, and the members of the GNOME Documentation
      Project are made aware of those trademarks, then the names
      are in capital letters or initial capital letters.
    </para>

    <para>
      DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT ARE PROVIDED
      UNDER  THE TERMS OF THE GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE
      WITH THE FURTHER UNDERSTANDING THAT:
        </para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,
                    WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR
                    IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES
                    THAT THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE
                    DOCUMENT IS FREE OF DEFECTS MERCHANTABLE, FIT FOR
                    A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGING. THE ENTIRE
                    RISK AS TO THE QUALITY, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE
                    OF THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE
                    DOCUMENT IS WITH YOU. SHOULD ANY DOCUMENT OR
                    MODIFIED VERSION PROVE DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT,
                    YOU (NOT THE INITIAL WRITER, AUTHOR OR ANY
                    CONTRIBUTOR) ASSUME THE COST OF ANY NECESSARY
                    SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. THIS DISCLAIMER
                    OF WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS
                    LICENSE. NO USE OF ANY DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED
                    VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT IS AUTHORIZED HEREUNDER
                    EXCEPT UNDER THIS DISCLAIMER; AND
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL
                       THEORY, WHETHER IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE),
                       CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL THE AUTHOR,
                       INITIAL WRITER, ANY CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY
                       DISTRIBUTOR OF THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION
                       OF THE DOCUMENT, OR ANY SUPPLIER OF ANY OF SUCH
                       PARTIES, BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY
                       DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR
                       CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER
                       INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS
                       OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR
                       MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR
                       LOSSES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO USE OF THE
                       DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT,
                       EVEN IF SUCH PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF
                       THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
        </sect1>