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Authors
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If an article appears in print or both in print and on the Linux Journal Web site, authors are free to use it for other purposes beginning the first day of the month after the cover date of the issue in which it appears. For example, if an author's article appears in the May 2010 issue, they can use it for other purposes starting on June 1, 2010.

If an author's article appears on our Web site only and not in print, the author can use it for other purposes one month after it first appears on our site.

Authors can not use their article for other publications or for their Web site while it is in the publication queue, in the current issue of Linux Journal, or before the appropriate time specified above.

Readers

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