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. | |
The End | |