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- The Artistic License
-
- Preamble
-
- The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package
- may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of
- artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users
- of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less
- customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications.
-
- Definitions:
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- "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder,
- and derivatives of that collection of files created through textual modification.
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- "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been modified, or
- has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder.
-
- "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for
- the package.
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- "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
-
- "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of media
- cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not
- be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing
- community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
-
- "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though
- there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients
- of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions they received it.
-
- 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard
- Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all
- of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
-
- 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived
- from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in
- such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
-
- 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
- that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when
- you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
-
- a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely
- Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent
- medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site such as ftp.uu.net,
- or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard
- Version of the Package.
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- b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
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- c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with standard
- executables, which must also be provided, and provide a separate manual page
- for each non-standard executable that clearly documents how it differs from
- the Standard Version.
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- d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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- 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable
- form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
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- a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, together
- with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard
- Version.
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- b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package
- with your modifications.
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- c) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding Standard
- Version executables, giving the non-standard executables non-standard names,
- and clearly documenting the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together
- with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.
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- d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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- 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package.
- You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not
- charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package
- in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger
- (possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise
- this Package as a product of your own.
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- 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output
- from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall under the copyright
- of this Package, but belong to whomever generated them, and may be sold commercially,
- and may be aggregated with this Package.
-
- 7. C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall
- not be considered part of this Package.
-
- 8.Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always permitted
- provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, when no overt
- attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible to the end user
- of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be construed as a distribution
- of this Package.
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- 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
- products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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- 10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
- INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The End
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