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.
It also grants you the rights to reuse parts of a Package in
your own programs without transferring this License to those
programs, provided that you meet some reasonable requirements.
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 as specified below.
"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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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 uunet.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)
give non-standard executables non-standard
names, and clearly document 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 whoever generated them, and may be sold
commercially, and may be aggregated with this Package.
If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this
Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of
producing a binary executable image, then distribution of
such an image shall neither be construed as a distribution
of this Package nor shall it fall under the restrictions of
Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do not represent such
an executable image as a Standard Version of this Package.
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7.
You may reuse parts of this Package in your own programs,
provided that you explicitly state where you got them from,
in the source code (and, left to your courtesy, in the
documentation), duplicating all the associated copyright notices
and disclaimers. Besides your changes, if any, must be clearly
marked as such. Parts reused that way will no longer fall under
this license if, and only if, the name of your program(s) have no
immediate connection with the name of the Package itself or its
associated programs. You may then apply whatever restrictions you
wish on the reused parts or choose to place them in the Public
Domain--this will apply only within the context of your package.
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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.
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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.
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