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5 | The "Artistic License"
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6 |
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7 | Preamble
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8 |
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9 | The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
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10 | Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
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11 | semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
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12 | while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
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13 | the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
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14 | reasonable modifications.
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15 |
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16 | Definitions:
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18 | "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
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19 | Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
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20 | created through textual modification.
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22 | "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
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23 | modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes
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24 | of the Copyright Holder as specified below.
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25 |
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26 | "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
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27 | copyrights for the package.
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29 | "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
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30 | this Package.
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31 |
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32 | "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the
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33 | basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved,
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34 | and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the
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35 | Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large
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36 | as a market that must bear the fee.)
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37 |
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38 | "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
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39 | itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item.
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40 | It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it
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41 | under the same conditions they received it.
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42 |
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43 | 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
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44 | Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
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45 | duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
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46 |
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47 | 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
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48 | derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package
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49 | modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
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50 |
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51 | 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
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52 | that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and
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53 | when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the
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54 | following:
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55 |
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56 | a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them
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57 | Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or
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58 | an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive
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59 | site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include
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60 | your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.
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61 |
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62 | b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
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63 |
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64 | c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
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65 | with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide
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66 | a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly
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67 | documents how it differs from the Standard Version.
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68 |
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69 | d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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70 |
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71 | 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
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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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75 | together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where
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76 | to get the Standard Version.
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77 |
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78 | b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
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79 | the Package with your modifications.
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81 | c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly
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82 | document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together
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83 | with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.
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84 |
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85 | d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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86 |
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87 | 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
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88 | Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
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89 | Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
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90 | you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
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91 | commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
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92 | distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
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93 | product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter within
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94 | an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere
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95 | form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
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96 | interpreter is so embedded.
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97 |
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98 | 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
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99 | output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
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100 | under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated
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101 | them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
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102 | Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this
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103 | Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a
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104 | binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall
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105 | neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it
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106 | fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do
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107 | not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this
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108 | Package.
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109 |
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110 | 7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
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111 | languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
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112 | emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
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113 | Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
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114 | equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do
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115 | not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the
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116 | regression tests for the language.
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117 |
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118 | 8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
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119 | permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
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120 | when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible
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121 | to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be
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122 | construed as a distribution of this Package.
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123 |
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124 | 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
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125 | products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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126 |
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127 | 10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
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128 | IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
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129 | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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131 | The End
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