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| 5 | + The "Artistic License" |
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| 9 | +The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a |
| 10 | +Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some |
| 11 | +semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, |
| 12 | +while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute |
| 13 | +the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make |
| 14 | +reasonable modifications. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +Definitions: |
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| 18 | + "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the |
| 19 | + Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files |
| 20 | + created through textual modification. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | + "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been |
| 23 | + modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes |
| 24 | + of the Copyright Holder as specified below. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | + "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or |
| 27 | + copyrights for the package. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | + "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing |
| 30 | + this Package. |
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| 32 | + "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the |
| 33 | + basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, |
| 34 | + and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the |
| 35 | + Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large |
| 36 | + as a market that must bear the fee.) |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item |
| 39 | + itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. |
| 40 | + It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it |
| 41 | + under the same conditions they received it. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the |
| 44 | +Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you |
| 45 | +duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications |
| 48 | +derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package |
| 49 | +modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version. |
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| 51 | +3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided |
| 52 | +that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and |
| 53 | +when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the |
| 54 | +following: |
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| 56 | + a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them |
| 57 | + Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or |
| 58 | + an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive |
| 59 | + site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include |
| 60 | + your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | + b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | + c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict |
| 65 | + with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide |
| 66 | + a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly |
| 67 | + documents how it differs from the Standard Version. |
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| 74 | + a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, |
| 75 | + together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where |
| 76 | + to get the Standard Version. |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | + b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of |
| 79 | + the Package with your modifications. |
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| 81 | + c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly |
| 82 | + document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together |
| 83 | + with instructions on where to get the Standard Version. |
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| 85 | + d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
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| 87 | +5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this |
| 88 | +Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this |
| 89 | +Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, |
| 90 | +you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly |
| 91 | +commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software |
| 92 | +distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a |
| 93 | +product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter within |
| 94 | +an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere |
| 95 | +form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the |
| 96 | +interpreter is so embedded. |
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| 98 | +6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as |
| 99 | +output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall |
| 100 | +under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated |
| 101 | +them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this |
| 102 | +Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this |
| 103 | +Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a |
| 104 | +binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall |
| 105 | +neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it |
| 106 | +fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do |
| 107 | +not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this |
| 108 | +Package. |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | +7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other |
| 111 | +languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to |
| 112 | +emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this |
| 113 | +Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the |
| 114 | +equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do |
| 115 | +not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the |
| 116 | +regression tests for the language. |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | +8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always |
| 119 | +permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, |
| 120 | +when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible |
| 121 | +to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be |
| 122 | +construed as a distribution of this Package. |
| 123 | + |
| 124 | +9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote |
| 125 | +products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. |
| 126 | + |
| 127 | +10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR |
| 128 | +IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED |
| 129 | +WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | + The End |
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