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- The Clarified 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:
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- "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.
-
- "Distribution fee" is a fee you charge for providing a copy of this
- Package to another party.
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- "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the right to use
- the item, 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.
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- 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
- derived from the Public Domain, or those made Freely Available, or from
- the Copyright Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be
- considered the Standard Version.
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- 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:
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- 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 network archive site allowing unrestricted access to them, or
- by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in
- the Standard Version of the Package.
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- b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or
- organization.
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- 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.
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- d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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- e) permit and encourge anyone who receives a copy of the modified
- Package permission to make your modifications Freely Available in
- some specific way.
-
-
- 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:
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- 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.
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- b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
- the Package with your modifications.
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- 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.
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- d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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- e) offer the machine-readable source of the Package, with your
- modifications, by mail order.
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- 5. You may charge a distribution fee for any distribution of this
- Package. If you offer support for this Package, you may charge any fee
- you choose for that support. You may not charge a license fee for the
- right to use this Package itself. You may distribute this Package in
- aggregate with other (possibly commercial and possibly nonfree) programs
- as part of a larger (possibly commercial and possibly nonfree) software
- distribution, and charge license fees for other parts of that software
- distribution, provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
- product of your own. If the Package includes an interpreter, 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.
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- 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.
-
- 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.
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- 8. Aggregation of the Standard Version of the 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The End
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