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. 

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) 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 (or comparable subroutines in other languages)
   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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