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- =head1 NAME
-
- perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>"
- Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic"
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This is B<"The Artistic License">. It's here so that modules,
- programs, etc., that want to declare this as their distribution
- license, can link to it.
-
- It is also one of the two licenses Perl allows itself to be
- redistributed and/or modified; for the other one, the GNU General
- Public License, see the L<perlgpl>.
-
- =head1 The "Artistic License"
-
- =head2 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.
-
- =head2 Definitions
-
- =over
-
- =item "Package"
-
- refers to the collection of files distributed by the
- Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created
- through textual modification.
-
- =item "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.
-
- =item "Copyright Holder"
-
- is whoever is named in the copyright or
- copyrights for the package.
-
- =item "You"
-
- is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
-
- =item "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.)
-
- =item "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.
-
- =back
-
- =head2 Conditions
-
- =over
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item 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:
-
- =over
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item b)
-
- use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item d)
-
- make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
-
- =back
-
- =item 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:
-
- =over
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item b)
-
- accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the
- Package with your modifications.
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item d)
-
- make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
-
- =back
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item 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.
-
- =item 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.
-
-
- =item 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.
-
- =back
-
- The End
-
- =cut
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