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