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| 2 | The "Artistic License" |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | Preamble |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a |
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| 7 | Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some |
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| 8 | semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, |
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| 9 | while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute |
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| 10 | the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make |
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| 11 | reasonable modifications. |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | Definitions: |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the |
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| 16 | Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files |
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| 17 | created through textual modification. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been |
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| 20 | modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes |
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| 21 | of the Copyright Holder as specified below. |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or |
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| 24 | copyrights for the package. |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing |
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| 27 | this Package. |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the |
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| 30 | basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, |
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| 31 | and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to the |
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| 32 | Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large |
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| 33 | as a market that must bear the fee.) |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item |
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| 36 | itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. |
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| 37 | It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it |
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| 38 | under the same conditions they received it. |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the |
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| 41 | Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you |
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| 42 | duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications |
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| 45 | derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package |
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| 46 | modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version. |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided |
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| 49 | that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and |
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| 50 | when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the |
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| 51 | following: |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them |
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| 54 | Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or |
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| 55 | an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive |
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| 56 | site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include |
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| 57 | your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict |
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| 62 | with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide |
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| 63 | a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly |
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| 64 | documents how it differs from the Standard Version. |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or |
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| 69 | executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, |
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| 72 | together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where |
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| 73 | to get the Standard Version. |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of |
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| 76 | the Package with your modifications. |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly |
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| 79 | document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together |
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| 80 | with instructions on where to get the Standard Version. |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this |
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| 85 | Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this |
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| 86 | Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, |
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| 87 | you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly |
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| 88 | commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software |
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| 89 | distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a |
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| 90 | product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter within |
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| 91 | an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere |
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| 92 | form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the |
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| 93 | interpreter is so embedded. |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as |
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| 96 | output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall |
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| 97 | under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated |
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| 98 | them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this |
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| 99 | Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this |
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| 100 | Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a |
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| 101 | binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall |
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| 102 | neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it |
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| 103 | fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do |
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| 104 | not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this |
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| 105 | Package. |
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| 106 | |
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| 107 | 7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other |
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| 108 | languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to |
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| 109 | emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this |
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| 110 | Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the |
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| 111 | equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do |
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| 112 | not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the |
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| 113 | regression tests for the language. |
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| 114 | |
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| 115 | 8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always |
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| 116 | permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, |
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| 117 | when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible |
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| 118 | to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be |
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| 119 | construed as a distribution of this Package. |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote |
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| 122 | products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. |
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| 123 | |
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| 124 | 10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR |
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| 125 | IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED |
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| 126 | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
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| 127 | |
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| 128 | The End |
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| 129 | |
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