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   5                         The "Artistic License"
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   7                                Preamble
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   9The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
  10Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
  11semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
  12while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
  13the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
  14reasonable modifications.
  15
  16Definitions:
  17
  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.
  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
  431. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
  44Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
  45duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
  46
  472. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
  48derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder.  A Package
  49modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
  50
  513. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
  52that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and
  53when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the
  54following:
  55
  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.
  68
  69    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
  70
  714. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
  72executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
  73
  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.
  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.
  84
  85    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
  86
  875. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
  88Package.  You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
  89Package.  You may not charge a fee for this Package itself.  However,
  90you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
  91commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
  92distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
  93product of your own.  You may embed this Package's interpreter within
  94an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere
  95form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
  96interpreter is so embedded.
  97
  986. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
  99output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
 100under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated
 101them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
 102Package.  If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this
 103Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a
 104binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall
 105neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it
 106fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do
 107not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this
 108Package.
 109
 1107. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
 111languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
 112emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
 113Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
 114equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do
 115not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the
 116regression tests for the language.
 117
 1188. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
 119permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
 120when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible
 121to the end user of the commercial distribution.  Such use shall not be
 122construed as a distribution of this Package.
 123
 1249. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
 125products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
 126
 12710. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
 128IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
 129WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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