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The "Artistic License"
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Preamble
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The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package
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may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of
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artistic control over the development of the package, while giving the users
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of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less
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customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications.
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Definitions:
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"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder,
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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
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has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder as
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specified below.
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"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for
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the package.
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"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
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"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of media
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cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not
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be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing
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community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
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"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though
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there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients
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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
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Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all
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of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
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2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived
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from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in
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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
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that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when
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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
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Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent
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medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site such as uunet.uu.net,
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or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard
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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
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executables, which must also be provided, and provide a separate manual page
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for each non-standard executable that clearly documents how it differs from
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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
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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
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with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard
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Version.
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b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package
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with your modifications.
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c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly document
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the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions
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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.
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You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not
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charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package
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in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger
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(possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise
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this Package as a product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter
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within an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere
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form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the interpreter
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is so embedded.
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6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output
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from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall under the copyright
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of this Package, but belong to whoever generated them, and may be sold commercially,
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and may be aggregated with this Package. If such scripts or library files
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are aggregated with this Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods
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of producing a binary executable image, then distribution of such an image
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shall neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it
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fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do not
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represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this Package.
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7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other languages) supplied
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by you and linked into this Package in order to emulate subroutines and variables
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of the language defined by this Package shall not be considered part of this
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Package, but are the equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these
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subroutines do not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail
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the regression tests for the language.
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8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always permitted
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provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, when no overt
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attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible to the end user
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of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be construed as a distribution
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of this Package.
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9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
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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,
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INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The End
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