

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.

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