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| 1 The "Artistic License" | |
| 2 | |
| 3 Preamble | |
| 4 | |
| 5 The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a | |
| 6 Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some | |
| 7 semblance of artistic control over the development of the Package, | |
| 8 while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute | |
| 9 the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make | |
| 10 reasonable modifications. | |
| 11 | |
| 12 It also grants you the rights to reuse parts of a Package in your own | |
| 13 programs without transferring this License to those programs, provided | |
| 14 that you meet some reasonable requirements. | |
| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
| 31 | |
| 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. | |
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| 47 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications | |
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| 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 | |
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| 60 your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. | |
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| 62 b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. | |
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| 64 c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict | |
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| 67 documents how it differs from the Standard Version. | |
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| 69 d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. | |
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| 71 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or | |
| 72 executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: | |
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| 74 a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, | |
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| 76 to get the Standard Version. | |
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| 78 b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of | |
| 79 the Package with your modifications. | |
| 80 | |
| 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 | |
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| 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. | |
| 94 | |
| 95 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as | |
| 96 output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall | |
| 97 under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated | |
| 98 them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this | |
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| 102 neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it | |
| 103 fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do | |
| 104 not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this | |
| 105 Package. | |
| 106 | |
| 107 7. You may reuse parts of this Package in your own programs, provided that | |
| 108 you explicitly state where you got them from, in the source code (and, left | |
| 109 to your courtesy, in the documentation), duplicating all the associated | |
| 110 copyright notices and disclaimers. Besides your changes, if any, must be | |
| 111 clearly marked as such. Parts reused that way will no longer fall under this | |
| 112 license if, and only if, the name of your program(s) have no immediate | |
| 113 connection with the name of the Package itself or its associated programs. | |
| 114 You may then apply whatever restrictions you wish on the reused parts or | |
| 115 choose to place them in the Public Domain--this will apply only within the | |
| 116 context of your package. | |
| 117 | |
| 118 8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote | |
| 119 products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 120 | |
| 121 9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 122 IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 123 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 124 | |
| 125 The End |
