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   1               The "Artistic License"
   2  
   3                  Preamble
   4  
   5  The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
   6  Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
   7  semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
   8  while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
   9  the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
  10  reasonable modifications.
  11  
  12  Definitions:
  13  
  14      "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
  15      Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
  16      created through textual modification.
  17  
  18      "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
  19      modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes
  20      of the Copyright Holder as specified below.
  21  
  22      "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
  23      copyrights for the package.
  24  
  25      "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
  26      this Package.
  27  
  28      "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the
  29      basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved,
  30      and so on.  (You will not be required to justify it to the
  31      Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large
  32      as a market that must bear the fee.)
  33  
  34      "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
  35      itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item.
  36      It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it
  37      under the same conditions they received it.
  38  
  39  1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
  40  Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
  41  duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
  42  
  43  2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
  44  derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder.  A Package
  45  modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
  46  
  47  3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
  48  that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and
  49  when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the
  50  following:
  51  
  52      a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them
  53      Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or
  54      an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive
  55      site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include
  56      your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.
  57  
  58      b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
  59  
  60      c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
  61      with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide
  62      a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly
  63      documents how it differs from the Standard Version.
  64  
  65      d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
  66  
  67  4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
  68  executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
  69  
  70      a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files,
  71      together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where
  72      to get the Standard Version.
  73  
  74      b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
  75      the Package with your modifications.
  76  
  77      c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly
  78      document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together
  79      with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.
  80  
  81      d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
  82  
  83  5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
  84  Package.  You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
  85  Package.  You may not charge a fee for this Package itself.  However,
  86  you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
  87  commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
  88  distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
  89  product of your own.  You may embed this Package's interpreter within
  90  an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere
  91  form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
  92  interpreter is so embedded.
  93  
  94  6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
  95  output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
  96  under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated
  97  them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
  98  Package.  If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this
  99  Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a
 100  binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall
 101  neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it
 102  fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do
 103  not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this
 104  Package.
 105  
 106  7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
 107  languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
 108  emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
 109  Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
 110  equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do
 111  not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the
 112  regression tests for the language.
 113  
 114  8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
 115  permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
 116  when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible
 117  to the end user of the commercial distribution.  Such use shall not be
 118  construed as a distribution of this Package.
 119  
 120  9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
 121  products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
 122  
 123  10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
 124  IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
 125  WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.