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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