
The Artistic License

Preamble

The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Package may be copied,
such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the
development of the package, while giving the users of the package the right to use and
distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable
modifications.

Definitions:

      "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder, and
      derivatives of that collection of files created through textual modification. 
      "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been modified, or has been
      modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder. 
      "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the package. 
      "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package. 
      "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of media cost,
      duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not be required to
      justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large as a
      market that must bear the fee.) 
      "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though there may be
      fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients of the item may
      redistribute it under the same conditions they received it. 

1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard Version of
this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright
notices and associated disclaimers.

2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived from the Public
Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be
considered the Standard Version.

3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a
prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and
provided that you do at least ONE of the following:

      a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely
      Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent
      medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site such as ftp.uu.net,
      or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard
      Version of the Package.

      b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.

      c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with standard
      executables, which must also be provided, and provide a separate manual page for
      each non-standard executable that clearly documents how it differs from the
      Standard Version.

      d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.

4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable form,
provided that you do at least ONE of the following:

      a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, together
      with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard
      Version.

      b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package with
      your modifications.

      c) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding Standard
      Version executables, giving the non-standard executables non-standard names, and
      clearly documenting the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with
      instructions on where to get the Standard Version.

      d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.

5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package. You may
charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not charge a fee for this
Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution provided
that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own.

6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output from the programs
of this Package do not automatically fall under the copyright of this Package, but belong to
whomever generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
Package.

7. C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall not be considered
part of this Package.

8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission.

9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

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