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5 | The "Artistic License" |
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7 | Preamble |
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9 | The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a |
10 | Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some |
11 | semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, |
12 | while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute |
13 | the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make |
14 | reasonable modifications. |
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16 | Definitions: |
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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. |
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22 | "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been |
23 | modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes |
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26 | "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or |
27 | copyrights for the package. |
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29 | "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing |
30 | this Package. |
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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.) |
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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. |
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43 | 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the |
44 | Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you |
45 | duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. |
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47 | 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications |
48 | derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package |
49 | modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version. |
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51 | 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided |
52 | that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and |
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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. |
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62 | b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. |
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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. |
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69 | d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
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71 | 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or |
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74 | a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, |
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78 | b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of |
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87 | 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this |
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89 | Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, |
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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 |
94 | an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere |
95 | form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the |
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98 | 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as |
99 | output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall |
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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 |
103 | Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a |
104 | binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall |
105 | neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it |
106 | fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do |
107 | not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this |
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111 | languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to |
112 | emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this |
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114 | equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do |
115 | not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the |
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120 | when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible |
121 | to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be |
122 | construed as a distribution of this Package. |
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124 | 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote |
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128 | IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED |
129 | WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
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