| The Clarified Artistic License |
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| Preamble |
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| 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. |
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| Definitions: |
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| "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the |
| Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files |
| created through textual modification. |
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| "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. |
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| "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or |
| copyrights for the package. |
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| "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing |
| this Package. |
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| "Distribution fee" is a fee you charge for providing a copy |
| of this Package to another party. |
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| "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the right to |
| use the item, 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications |
| derived from the Public Domain, or those made Freely Available, or from |
| the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be |
| considered the Standard Version. |
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| 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: |
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| 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 network |
| archive site allowing unrestricted access to them, or by allowing the |
| Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard Version |
| of the Package. |
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| b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. |
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| 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. |
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| d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
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| e) permit and encourge anyone who receives a copy of the modified Package |
| permission to make your modifications Freely Available |
| in some specific way. |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
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| b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of |
| the Package with your modifications. |
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| c) 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. |
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| d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
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| e) offer the machine-readable source of the Package, with your |
| modifications, by mail order. |
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| 5. You may charge a distribution fee for any distribution of this Package. |
| If you offer support for this Package, you may charge any fee you choose |
| for that support. You may not charge a license fee for the right to use |
| this Package itself. You may distribute this Package in aggregate with |
| other (possibly commercial and possibly nonfree) programs as part of a |
| larger (possibly commercial and possibly nonfree) software distribution, |
| and charge license fees for other parts of that software distribution, |
| provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own. |
| If the Package includes an interpreter, 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. |
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| 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 whoever 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 8. Aggregation of the Standard Version of the 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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| The End |