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