This work is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It was originally written in LaTeX, then ported to DocBook. It is available in transparent copy in the DocBook/XML format at http://samizdat.mines.edu. A build system and special instructions on processing are part of the transparent copy package, though building from the source is system dependent. The source can be built into either HTML or PDF format, and extension to other formats should be possible and is encouraged.
The original version of this document was written by Robert L. Read without renumeration and dedicated to the programmers of Hire.com.