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- The "Perl Artistic License"
-
- Preamble
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- The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which the Perl
- Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
- semblance of artistic control over its development, while giving Perl users
- the right to use and distribute Perl in a more-or-less customary fashion,
- plus the right to make reasonable modifications.
-
- Definitions:
-
- "Package" refers to the collection of Perl-kit files distributed by the
- Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
- created through textual modification.
-
- "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
- modified, or has been modified as specified below.
-
- "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
- copyrights for the Perl package.
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- "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
- this Package.
-
- "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.)
-
- "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.
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- 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
- Standard Version of this Perl Package without restriction, provided that you
- duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
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- 2. 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.
-
- 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Perl 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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- a) 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 Perl Package.
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- b) use the modified Perl Package only within your corporation or
- organization.
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- c) 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.
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- d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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- 4. You may distribute the programs of this Perl Package in object code or
- executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
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- a) 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.
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- b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
- the Perl Package with your modifications.
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- c) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding
- Standard Version executables, giving the non-standard executables
- non-standard names, and clearly documenting the differences in manual
- pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where to get
- the Standard Version.
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- d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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- 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
- Perl Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Perl
- Package. You may not charge a fee for this Perl Package itself. However,
- you may distribute this Perl Package in aggregate with other (possibly
- commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
- distribution provided that you do not advertise this Perl Package as a
- product of your own.
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- 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
- output from the programs of this Perl Package do not automatically fall
- under the copyright of this Perl Package, but belong to whomever generated
- them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this Perl
- Package.
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- 7. C subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Perl Package in order
- to emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this Perl
- Package shall not be considered part of this Perl 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.
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- 8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
- products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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- 9. This PERL 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.
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- The End
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