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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>
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<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:
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<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
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<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>
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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>
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<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>
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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