The Artistic License
August 15, 1997
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 as 
    specified below.

    "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:

         1. 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 uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include 
         your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. 2. use the 
         modified Package only within your corporation or organization. 3. 
         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. 4. 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:

         1. 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. 2. accompany the distribution with the 
         machine-readable source of the Package with your modifications. 3. give 
         non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly document the 
         differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions 
         on where to get the Standard Version. 4. 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. You may embed this 
   Package's interpreter within an executable of yours (by linking); this shall 
   be construed as a mere form of aggregation, provided that the complete 
   Standard Version of the interpreter is so embedded.

   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. If such scripts 
   or library files are aggregated with this Package via the so-called "undump" 
   or "unexec" methods of producing a binary executable image, then distribution 
   of such an image shall neither be construed as a distribution of this Package 
   nor shall it fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that 
   you do not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this 
   Package.

   7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other languages) 
   supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to emulate subroutines 
   and variables of the language defined by this Package shall not be considered 
   part of this Package, but are the equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, 
   provided these subroutines do not change the language in any way that would 
   cause it to fail the regression tests for the language.

   8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always 
   permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, when no 
   overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible to the end 
   user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be construed as a 
   distribution of this Package.

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

  10. 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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