Richard Lowe | 6243123 | 2012-08-17 15:12:35 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | The "Artistic License" |
| 2 | Preamble |
| 3 | The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a |
| 4 | Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some |
| 5 | semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while |
| 6 | giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the |
| 7 | Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make |
| 8 | reasonable modifications. |
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| 10 | Definitions |
| 11 | "Package" |
| 12 | refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright |
| 13 | Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through |
| 14 | textual modification. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | "Standard Version" |
| 17 | refers to such a Package if it has not been modified, or has been |
| 18 | modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder as |
| 19 | specified below. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | "Copyright Holder" |
| 22 | is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the package. |
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| 24 | "You" |
| 25 | is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this |
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| 28 | "Reasonable copying fee" |
| 29 | is whatever you can justify on the basis of media cost, duplication |
| 30 | charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not be |
| 31 | required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the |
| 32 | computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.) |
| 33 | |
| 34 | "Freely Available" |
| 35 | means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though there may |
| 36 | be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipients |
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| 38 | received it. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Conditions |
| 41 | 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the |
| 42 | Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that |
| 43 | you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated |
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| 46 | 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications |
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| 48 | Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the |
| 49 | Standard Version. |
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| 51 | 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, |
| 52 | provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file |
| 53 | stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do |
| 54 | at least ONE of the following: |
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| 56 | a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make |
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| 58 | Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on |
| 59 | a major archive site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the |
| 60 | Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard |
| 61 | Version of the Package. |
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| 63 | b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or |
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| 66 | c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict |
| 67 | with standard executables, which must also be provided, and |
| 68 | provide a separate manual page for each non-standard executable |
| 69 | that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or |
| 74 | executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: |
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| 76 | a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library |
| 77 | files, together with instructions (in the manual page or |
| 78 | equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version. |
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| 81 | the Package with your modifications. |
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| 83 | c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly |
| 84 | document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), |
| 85 | together with instructions on where to get the Standard Version. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
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| 89 | 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this |
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| 92 | you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly |
| 93 | commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) |
| 94 | software distribution provided that you do not advertise this |
| 95 | Package as a product of your own. You may embed this Package's |
| 96 | interpreter within an executable of yours (by linking); this shall |
| 97 | be construed as a mere form of aggregation, provided that the |
| 98 | complete Standard Version of the interpreter is so embedded. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as |
| 101 | output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall |
| 102 | under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated |
| 103 | them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this |
| 104 | Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this |
| 105 | Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing |
| 106 | a binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall |
| 107 | neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it |
| 108 | fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you |
| 109 | do not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of |
| 110 | this Package. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | 7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other |
| 113 | languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to |
| 114 | emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this |
| 115 | Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the |
| 116 | equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do |
| 117 | not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the |
| 118 | regression tests for the language. |
| 119 | |
| 120 | 8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always |
| 121 | permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that |
| 122 | is, when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces |
| 123 | visible to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use |
| 124 | shall not be construed as a distribution of this Package. |
| 125 | |
| 126 | 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or |
| 127 | promote products derived from this software without specific prior |
| 128 | written permission. |
| 129 | |
| 130 | 10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED |
| 131 | WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF |
| 132 | MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | The End |