perlartistic
PERLARTISTIC(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLARTISTIC(1)
NAME
perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
SYNOPSIS
You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>"
Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic"
DESCRIPTION
This is "The Artistic License". It’s here so that modules, programs,
etc., that want to declare this as their distribution license, can
link to it.
It is also one of the two licenses Perl allows itself to be redis-
tributed and/or modified; for the other one, the GNU General Public
License, see the perlgpl.
The "Artistic License"
Preamble
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.
Definitions
"Package"
refers to the collection of 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 in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright Holder as
specified below.
"Copyright Holder"
is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the pack-
age.
"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, duplica-
tion 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 recipi-
ents of the item may redistribute it under the same conditions
they received it.
Conditions
1. 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 asso-
ciated disclaimers.
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 Stan-
dard Version.
3. 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:
a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise
make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifica-
tions to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modi-
fications 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.
b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or orga-
nization.
c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not con-
flict with standard executables, which must also be provided,
and provide a separate manual page for each non-standard exe-
cutable that clearly documents how it differs from the Stan-
dard Version.
d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright
Holder.
4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the follow-
ing:
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.
b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
the Package with your modifications.
c) 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 Ver-
sion.
d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright
Holder.
5. 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 com-
mercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise
this Package as a product of your own. You may embed this Pack-
age’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.
6. 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 whoever gener-
ated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated
with this Package. If such scripts or library files are aggre-
gated 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 Para-
graphs 3 and 4, provided that you do not represent such an exe-
cutable image as a Standard Version of this Package.
7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other lan-
guages) 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.
8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
always permitted provided that the use of this Package is embed-
ded; 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.
9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
promote products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.
10. 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 PUR-
POSE.
The End
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