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.
  
* "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.	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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