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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: | |
| * "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the | |
| Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files | |
| created through textual modification. | |
| * "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. | |
| * "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. | |
| b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or | |
| organization. | |
| 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. | |
| d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. | |
| 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: | |
| 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. | |
| b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of | |
| the Package with your modifications. | |
| 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. | |
| d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or | |
| promote products derived from this software without specific prior | |
| written permission. | |
| 9. 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 | |
| This license is approved by the Open Source Initiative | |
| (www.opensource.org) for certifying software as OSI Certified Open | |
| Source. | |