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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Fri May 4 07:02:05 2007 UTC (17 years, 7 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-2_03, rel-2_02, rel-2_01, rel-1_1, rel-1_0, rel-2_0, rel-2_1, rel-1_15, rel-1_14, rel-1_11, rel-1_13, rel-1_12, rel-0_9, rel-0_02, HEAD
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5     The "Artistic License"
6    
7     Preamble
8    
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.
15    
16     Definitions:
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    
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.
46    
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.
50    
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
53     when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the
54     following:
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    
71     4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
72     executable 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    
87     5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
88     Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
89     Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
90     you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
91     commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
92     distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
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
96     interpreter is so embedded.
97    
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
100     under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated
101     them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
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
108     Package.
109    
110     7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
111     languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
112     emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
113     Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
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
116     regression tests for the language.
117    
118     8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
119     permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
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.
123    
124     9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
125     products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
126    
127     10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
128     IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
129     WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
130    
131     The End