| 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 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. | |
| Conditions | |
| 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 uunet.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) 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. | |
| 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. 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 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. | |
| 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. | |
| The End |