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.

		"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.
	
		"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 ftp.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 supplied by you and linked into this Package
	shall not be considered part of this Package.


	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.


	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.


	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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