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<book id="index">
<bookinfo>
<title>GPhoto2 API Reference Manual</title>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Lutz</firstname>
+ <surname>Müller</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <address>
+ <email>urc8@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de</email>
+ </address>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2000</year>
+ <holder>The Free Software Foundation</holder>
+ </copyright>
+
+ <legalnotice>
+ <para>
+ Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+ document under the terms of the <citetitle>GNU Free
+ Documentation License</citetitle>, 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 may obtain a copy of the <citetitle>GNU Free
+ Documentation License</citetitle> from the Free Software
+ Foundation by visiting <ulink type="http"
+ url="http://www.fsf.org">their Web site</ulink> or by writing
+ to:
+
+ <address>
+ The Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ <street>59 Temple Place</street> - Suite 330,
+ <city>Boston</city>, <state>MA</state> <postcode>02111-1307</postcode>,
+ <country>USA</country>
+ </address>
+ </para>
+ </legalnotice>
</bookinfo>
<chapter id="gphoto2"
@@ -60,11 +98,13 @@ locking of serial ports. GPhoto2 currently supports
</chapter>
<chapter id="gphoto2base" role="no-toc">
- <title>GPhoto2 Core Reference</title>
- <para>
- GPhoto2's core provides some utility functions and general
- datatypes.
- </para>
+ <title>GPhoto2 Utilities</title>
+ <para>
+ GPhoto2's core provides some utility functions and general
+ datatypes. In contrast to the
+ objects presented later, they
+ cannot be classified as objects, and are therefore presented upfront.
+ </para>
&gphoto2-result;
&gphoto2-library;
@@ -73,24 +113,53 @@ locking of serial ports. GPhoto2 currently supports
<chapter id="gphoto2objects" role="no-toc">
<title>GPhoto2 Objects</title>
+ <para>
+ In order to simplify programming with GPhoto2, an object oriented
+ approach has been used. The different objects are presented in
+ the following sections.
+ </para>
- <sect1 id="FrontendObjects">
- <title>Objects used by front-ends</title>
- &gphoto2-camera;
- </sect1>
+&gphoto2-camera;
+&gphoto2-filesys;
+&gphoto2-widget;
+&gphoto2-list;
+&gphoto2-abilities-list;
+&gphoto2-file;
- <sect1 id="BackendObjects">
- <title>Objects used by camera drivers</title>
- &gphoto2-filesys;
- </sect1>
+ </chapter>
- <sect1 id="GeneralPurposeObjects">
- <title>Objects used by both frontends and camera drivers</title>
- &gphoto2-widget;
- &gphoto2-list;
- &gphoto2-abilities-list;
- &gphoto2-file;
- </sect1>
+ <appendix id="license">
+ <title>License</title>
+
+ <para>
+ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the <citetitle>GNU Library General
+ Public License</citetitle> as published by the Free Software
+ Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ <citetitle>GNU Library General Public License</citetitle> for
+ more details.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You may obtain a copy of the <citetitle>GNU Library General
+ Public License</citetitle> from the Free Software Foundation by
+ visiting <ulink type="http" url="http://www.fsf.org">their Web
+ site</ulink> or by writing to:
+
+ <address>
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ <street>59 Temple Place</street> - Suite 330
+ <city>Boston</city>, <state>MA</state> <postcode>02111-1307</postcode>
+ <country>USA</country>
+ </address>
+ </para>
+ </appendix>
- </chapter>
</book>