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15 <H1>The "Artistic License"</H1>
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16
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17 <H2>Preamble</H2>
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18
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19 <P>The intent of this document is to state the conditions under
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20 which a Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder
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21 maintains some semblance of artistic control over the
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22 development of the package, while giving the users of the
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23 package the right to use and distribute the Package in a
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24 more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
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25 reasonable modifications.</P>
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26
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27 <H2>Definitions</H2>
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29
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30 <P>"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
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33
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34 <P>"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
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35 modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of
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36 the Copyright Holder as specified below.</P>
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37
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38 <P>"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
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39 copyrights for the package.</P>
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40
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41 <P>"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
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42 this Package.</P>
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43
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44 <P>"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the
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45 basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people
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46 involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to
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47 the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at
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48 large as a market that must bear the fee.)</P>
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49
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50 <P>"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
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51 itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the
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52 item. It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute
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53 it under the same conditions they received it.</P>
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54
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55
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56 <OL STYLE="list-style-type: decimal;">
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57 <LI><DIV CLASS="li">You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source
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58 form of the Standard Version of this Package without
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59 restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original
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60 copyright notices and associated disclaimers.</DIV></LI>
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61
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62 <LI>You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other
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63 modifications derived from the Public Domain or from the
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64 Copyright Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still
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65 be considered the Standard Version.</LI>
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66
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67 <LI>You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any
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68 way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each
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69 changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and
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70 provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
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71 <OL STYLE="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
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72 <LI>place your modifications in the Public Domain or
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73 otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting
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74 said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or
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75 placing the modifications on a major archive site such as
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76 uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to
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77 include your modifications in the Standard Version of the
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78 Package.</LI>
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79
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80 <LI>use the modified Package only within your corporation or
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81 organization.</LI>
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82
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83 <LI>rename any non-standard executables so the names do not
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84 conflict with standard executables, which must also be
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85 provided, and provide a separate manual page for each
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86 non-standard executable that clearly documents how it
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87 differs from the Standard Version. d. make other
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88 distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.</LI>
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89 </OL>
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90 </LI>
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91 </OL>
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92
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93 <P>You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code
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94 or executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the
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95 following:</P>
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96
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97 <OL STYLE="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
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98 <LI>distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library
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101
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102 <LI>accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source
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109
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111 Holder.</LI>
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113
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114 <P>You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of
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115 this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of
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116 this Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package
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117 itself. However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate
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118 with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger
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119 (possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do
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120 not advertise this Package as a product of your own. You may
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121 embed this Package's interpreter within an executable of yours
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122 (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere form of
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123 aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
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124 interpreter is so embedded.</P>
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125
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126 <P>The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced
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127 as output from the programs of this Package do not automatically
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128 fall under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever
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129 generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be
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130 aggregated with this Package. If such scripts or library files
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131 are aggregated with this Package via the so-called "undump" or
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132 "unexec" methods of producing a binary executable image, then
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133 distribution of such an image shall neither be construed as a
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134 distribution of this Package nor shall it fall under the
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135 restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do not
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136 represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this
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137 Package.</P>
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138
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139 <P>C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
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140 languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order
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141 to emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by
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142 this Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but
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143 are the equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these
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144 subroutines do not change the language in any way that would
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145 cause it to fail the regression tests for the language.</P>
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146
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147 <P>Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
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148 always permitted provided that the use of this Package is
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149 embedded; that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this
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150 Package's interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial
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151 distribution. Such use shall not be construed as a distribution
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152 of this Package.</P>
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153
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154 <P>The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
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155 promote products derived from this software without specific
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156 prior written permission.</P>
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157
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158 <P>THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
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159 IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
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160 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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161 PURPOSE.</P>
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