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- (*
- This document is freely plagiarised from the 'Artistic Licence',
- distributed as part of the Perl v4.0 kit by Larry Wall, which is
- available from most major archive sites
- *)
-
- This documents purpose is to state the conditions under which this
- Package (See definition below) viz: The "Crack" Password Cracker, which
- is copyright Alec David Edward Muffett, 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.
-
- So there.
-
- ***************************************************************************
-
- Definitions:
-
- "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright
- Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through
- textual modification, or segments thereof.
-
- "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 AND WHY 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 separate
- documentation 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 name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
- promote products derived from this software without specific prior
- written permission.
-
- 7. 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
-