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+ <H1>The "Artistic License"</H1>
+
+ <H2>Preamble</H2>
+
+ <P>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.</P>
+
+ <H2>Definitions</H2>
+
+
+ <P>"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
+ Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
+ created through textual modification.</P>
+
+ <P>"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 as specified below.</P>
+
+ <P>"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
+ copyrights for the package.</P>
+
+ <P>"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
+ this Package.</P>
+
+ <P>"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.)</P>
+
+ <P>"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.</P>
+
+
+ <OL STYLE="list-style-type: decimal;">
+ <LI><DIV CLASS="li">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.</DIV></LI>
+
+ <LI>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.</LI>
+
+ <LI>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:
+ <OL STYLE="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
+ <LI>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
+ uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to
+ include your modifications in the Standard Version of the
+ Package.</LI>
+
+ <LI>use the modified Package only within your corporation or
+ organization.</LI>
+
+ <LI>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.</LI>
+ </OL>
+ </LI>
+ </OL>
+
+ <P>You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code
+ or executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the
+ following:</P>
+
+ <OL STYLE="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
+ <LI>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.</LI>
+
+ <LI>accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source
+ of the Package with your modifications.</LI>
+
+ <LI>give non-standard executables non-standard names, and
+ clearly document the differences in manual pages (or
+ equivalent), together with instructions on where to get the
+ Standard Version.</LI>
+
+ <LI>make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright
+ Holder.</LI>
+ </OL>
+
+ <P>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. You may
+ embed this Package's interpreter within an executable of yours
+ (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere form of
+ aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
+ interpreter is so embedded.</P>
+
+ <P>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. If such scripts or library files
+ are aggregated with this Package via the so-called "undump" or
+ "unexec" methods of producing a binary executable image, then
+ distribution of such an image shall neither be construed as a
+ distribution of this Package nor shall it fall under the
+ restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do not
+ represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this
+ Package.</P>
+
+ <P>C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
+ languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order
+ to emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by
+ this Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but
+ are the equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these
+ subroutines do not change the language in any way that would
+ cause it to fail the regression tests for the language.</P>
+
+ <P>Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
+ always permitted provided that the use of this Package is
+ embedded; that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this
+ Package's interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial
+ distribution. Such use shall not be construed as a distribution
+ of this Package.</P>
+
+ <P>The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
+ promote products derived from this software without specific
+ prior written permission.</P>
+
+ <P>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.</P>
+
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