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6 perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
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13 This is "The Artistic License". It's here so that modules, programs,
14 etc., that want to declare this as their distribution license, can link
15 to it.
16 It is also one of the two licenses Perl allows itself to be redis‐
18 tributed and/or modified; for the other one, the GNU General Public
19 License, see the perlgpl.
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22 Preamble
23 The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
25 Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
26 semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
27 while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
28 the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
29 reasonable modifications.
30 Definitions
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36 textual modification.
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40 modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder as
41 specified below.
42 "Copyright Holder"
44 is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the package.
45 "You"
47 is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Pack‐
48 age.
49 "Reasonable copying fee"
51 is whatever you can justify on the basis of media cost, duplication
52 charges, time of people involved, and so on. (You will not be
53 required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but only to the
54 computing community at large as a market that must bear the fee.)
55 "Freely Available"
57 means that no fee is charged for the item itself, though there may
58 be fees involved in handling the item. It also means that recipi‐
59 ents of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions they
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61 Conditions
63 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of
65 the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided
66 that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and asso‐
67 ciated disclaimers.
68 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
70 derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A
71 Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the Stan‐
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73 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, pro‐
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76 ing how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at
77 least ONE of the following:
78 a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make
80 them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to
81 Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on
82 a major archive site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the
83 Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard
84 Version of the Package.
85 b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or orga‐
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88 c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not con‐
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91 and provide a separate manual page for each non-standard exe‐
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96 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
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99 ing:
100 a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library
102 files, together with instructions (in the manual page or equiv‐
103 alent) on where to get the Standard Version.
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114 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of
116 this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of
117 this Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself.
118 However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other
119 (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly com‐
120 mercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise
121 this Package as a product of your own. You may embed this Pack‐
122 age's interpreter within an executable of yours (by linking); this
123 shall be construed as a mere form of aggregation, provided that the
124 complete Standard Version of the interpreter is so embedded.
125 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
127 output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
128 under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever gener‐
129 ated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with
130 this Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with
131 this Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of pro‐
132 ducing a binary executable image, then distribution of such an
133 image shall neither be construed as a distribution of this Package
134 nor shall it fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4,
135 provided that you do not represent such an executable image as a
136 Standard Version of this Package.
137 7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other lan‐
139 guages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
140 emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
141 Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
142 equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines
143 do not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail
144 the regression tests for the language.
145 8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
147 always permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded;
148 that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's
149 interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial distribution.
150 Such use shall not be construed as a distribution of this Package.
151 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or pro‐
153 mote products derived from this software without specific prior
154 written permission.
155 10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
157 WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
158 OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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