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6 perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
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13 Perl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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15 a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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19 b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit.
21 This is "The Artistic License". It's here so that modules, programs,
23 etc., that want to declare this as their distribution license can link
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25 For the GNU General Public License, see perlgpl.
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29 Preamble
30 The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
31 Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
32 semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
33 while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
34 the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
35 reasonable modifications.
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66 Conditions
68 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of
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70 that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and
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72 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
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118 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of
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122 However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other
123 (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly
124 commercial) software distribution provided that you do not
125 advertise this Package as a product of your own. You may embed
126 this Package's interpreter within an executable of yours (by
127 linking); this shall be construed as a mere form of aggregation,
128 provided that the complete Standard Version of the interpreter is
129 so embedded.
130 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
132 output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
133 under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever
134 generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated
135 with this Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated
136 with this Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of
137 producing a binary executable image, then distribution of such an
138 image shall neither be construed as a distribution of this Package
139 nor shall it fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4,
140 provided that you do not represent such an executable image as a
141 Standard Version of this Package.
142 7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
144 languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
145 emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
146 Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
147 equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines
148 do not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail
149 the regression tests for the language.
150 8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
152 always permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded;
153 that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's
154 interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial distribution.
155 Such use shall not be construed as a distribution of this Package.
156 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
158 promote products derived from this software without specific prior
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