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The Artistic License
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Preamble
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The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
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Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
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semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
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while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
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the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to
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make reasonable modifications.
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Definitions:
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"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
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Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
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created through textual modification.
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"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
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modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of
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the Copyright Holder {as specified below}.
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"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
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copyrights for the package.
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"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
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this Package. "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can
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justify on the basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of
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people involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify
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it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at
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large as a market that must bear the fee.)
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"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
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itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item.
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It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it
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under the same conditions they received it.
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1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of
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the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided
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that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and
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associated disclaimers.
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2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
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derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A
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Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the
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Standard Version.
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3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way,
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provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file
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stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you
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do at least ONE of the following:
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a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make
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them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to
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Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on
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a major archive site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the
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Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard
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Version of the Package.
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b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or
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organization.
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c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not
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conflict with standard executables, which must also be
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provided, and provide a separate manual page for each
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non-standard executable that clearly documents how it differs
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from the Standard Version.
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d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
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executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the
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following:
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a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library
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files, together with instructions (in the manual page or
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equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version.
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b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
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the Package with your modifications.
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c) [accompany any non-standard executables with their
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corresponding Standard Version executables, giving the] {give}
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non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly
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[documenting] {document} the differences in manual pages (or
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equivalent), together with instructions on where to get the
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Standard Version.
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d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of
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this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
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Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
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you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
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commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial)
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software distribution provided that you do not advertise this
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Package as a product of your own. {You may embed this Package's
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interpreter within an executable of yours (by linking); this shall
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be construed as a mere form of aggregation, provided that the
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complete Standard Version of the interpreter is so embedded.}
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6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
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output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
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under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever
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generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated
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with this Package. {If such scripts or library files are aggregated
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with this Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of
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producing a binary executable image, then distribution of such an
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image shall neither be construed as a distribution of this Package
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nor shall it fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4,
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provided that you do not represent such an executable image as a
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Standard Version of this Package.}
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7. C [or perl] subroutines {(or comparably compiled subroutines in
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other languages)} supplied by you and linked into this Package
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shall not be considered part of this Package{, but are the
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equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines
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do not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail
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the regression tests for the language}.
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{8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
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always permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded;
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that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's
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interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial distribution.
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Such use shall not be construed as a distribution of this Package.}
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9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
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promote products derived from this software without specific prior
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written permission.
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10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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The End
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---
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Gentoo license note: The original Artistic License and the license
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distributed with Perl differ in some points. Square brackets hold text
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that occurs in the original license, e.g. [or perl]; curly braces hold
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text that occurs in the Perl license, e.g. {as specified below}.
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For the sake of readability, minor differences like changed numbering
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of paragraphs, spelling corrections, or updated URLs are not marked.
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