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| 131 | .IX Title "PERLARTISTIC 1" |
| 132 | .TH PERLARTISTIC 1 "2006-01-07" "perl v5.8.8" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" |
| 133 | .SH "NAME" |
| 134 | perlartistic \- the Perl Artistic License |
| 135 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| 136 | .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" |
| 137 | .Vb 2 |
| 138 | \& You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>" |
| 139 | \& Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic" |
| 140 | .Ve |
| 141 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| 142 | .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" |
| 143 | This is \fB\*(L"The Artistic License\*(R"\fR. It's here so that modules, |
| 144 | programs, etc., that want to declare this as their distribution |
| 145 | license, can link to it. |
| 146 | .PP |
| 147 | It is also one of the two licenses Perl allows itself to be |
| 148 | redistributed and/or modified; for the other one, the \s-1GNU\s0 General |
| 149 | Public License, see the perlgpl. |
| 150 | .ie n .SH "The ""Artistic License""" |
| 151 | .el .SH "The ``Artistic License''" |
| 152 | .IX Header "The Artistic License" |
| 153 | .Sh "Preamble" |
| 154 | .IX Subsection "Preamble" |
| 155 | The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a |
| 156 | Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some |
| 157 | semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, |
| 158 | while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute |
| 159 | the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make |
| 160 | reasonable modifications. |
| 161 | .Sh "Definitions" |
| 162 | .IX Subsection "Definitions" |
| 163 | .ie n .IP """Package""" 4 |
| 164 | .el .IP "``Package''" 4 |
| 165 | .IX Item "Package" |
| 166 | refers to the collection of files distributed by the |
| 167 | Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created |
| 168 | through textual modification. |
| 169 | .ie n .IP """Standard Version""" 4 |
| 170 | .el .IP "``Standard Version''" 4 |
| 171 | .IX Item "Standard Version" |
| 172 | refers to such a Package if it has not been |
| 173 | modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the |
| 174 | Copyright Holder as specified below. |
| 175 | .ie n .IP """Copyright Holder""" 4 |
| 176 | .el .IP "``Copyright Holder''" 4 |
| 177 | .IX Item "Copyright Holder" |
| 178 | is whoever is named in the copyright or |
| 179 | copyrights for the package. |
| 180 | .ie n .IP """You""" 4 |
| 181 | .el .IP "``You''" 4 |
| 182 | .IX Item "You" |
| 183 | is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package. |
| 184 | .ie n .IP """Reasonable copying fee""" 4 |
| 185 | .el .IP "``Reasonable copying fee''" 4 |
| 186 | .IX Item "Reasonable copying fee" |
| 187 | is whatever you can justify on the basis |
| 188 | of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. |
| 189 | (You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but |
| 190 | only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the |
| 191 | fee.) |
| 192 | .ie n .IP """Freely Available""" 4 |
| 193 | .el .IP "``Freely Available''" 4 |
| 194 | .IX Item "Freely Available" |
| 195 | means that no fee is charged for the item |
| 196 | itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also |
| 197 | means that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same |
| 198 | conditions they received it. |
| 199 | .Sh "Conditions" |
| 200 | .IX Subsection "Conditions" |
| 201 | .IP "1." 4 |
| 202 | You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the |
| 203 | Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you |
| 204 | duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. |
| 205 | .IP "2." 4 |
| 206 | You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications |
| 207 | derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package |
| 208 | modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version. |
| 209 | .IP "3." 4 |
| 210 | You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided |
| 211 | that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and |
| 212 | when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least \s-1ONE\s0 of the |
| 213 | following: |
| 214 | .RS 4 |
| 215 | .IP "a)" 4 |
| 216 | place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them |
| 217 | Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an |
| 218 | equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site |
| 219 | such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include |
| 220 | your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. |
| 221 | .IP "b)" 4 |
| 222 | use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. |
| 223 | .IP "c)" 4 |
| 224 | rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with |
| 225 | standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide a |
| 226 | separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly |
| 227 | documents how it differs from the Standard Version. |
| 228 | .IP "d)" 4 |
| 229 | make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
| 230 | .RE |
| 231 | .RS 4 |
| 232 | .RE |
| 233 | .IP "4." 4 |
| 234 | You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or |
| 235 | executable form, provided that you do at least \s-1ONE\s0 of the following: |
| 236 | .RS 4 |
| 237 | .IP "a)" 4 |
| 238 | distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, |
| 239 | together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where |
| 240 | to get the Standard Version. |
| 241 | .IP "b)" 4 |
| 242 | accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the |
| 243 | Package with your modifications. |
| 244 | .IP "c)" 4 |
| 245 | give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly |
| 246 | document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with |
| 247 | instructions on where to get the Standard Version. |
| 248 | .IP "d)" 4 |
| 249 | make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. |
| 250 | .RE |
| 251 | .RS 4 |
| 252 | .RE |
| 253 | .IP "5." 4 |
| 254 | You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this |
| 255 | Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this |
| 256 | Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, |
| 257 | you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly |
| 258 | commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software |
| 259 | distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a |
| 260 | product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter within |
| 261 | an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere |
| 262 | form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the |
| 263 | interpreter is so embedded. |
| 264 | .IP "6." 4 |
| 265 | The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as |
| 266 | output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall |
| 267 | under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated |
| 268 | them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this |
| 269 | Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this |
| 270 | Package via the so-called \*(L"undump\*(R" or \*(L"unexec\*(R" methods of producing a |
| 271 | binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall |
| 272 | neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it |
| 273 | fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do |
| 274 | not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this |
| 275 | Package. |
| 276 | .IP "7." 4 |
| 277 | C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other |
| 278 | languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to |
| 279 | emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this |
| 280 | Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the |
| 281 | equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do |
| 282 | not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the |
| 283 | regression tests for the language. |
| 284 | .IP "8." 4 |
| 285 | Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always |
| 286 | permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, |
| 287 | when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible |
| 288 | to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be |
| 289 | construed as a distribution of this Package. |
| 290 | .IP "9." 4 |
| 291 | The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote |
| 292 | products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. |
| 293 | .IP "10." 4 |
| 294 | .IX Item "10." |
| 295 | \&\s-1THIS\s0 \s-1PACKAGE\s0 \s-1IS\s0 \s-1PROVIDED\s0 \*(L"\s-1AS\s0 \s-1IS\s0\*(R" \s-1AND\s0 \s-1WITHOUT\s0 \s-1ANY\s0 \s-1EXPRESS\s0 \s-1OR\s0 |
| 296 | \&\s-1IMPLIED\s0 \s-1WARRANTIES\s0, \s-1INCLUDING\s0, \s-1WITHOUT\s0 \s-1LIMITATION\s0, \s-1THE\s0 \s-1IMPLIED\s0 |
| 297 | \&\s-1WARRANTIES\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \s-1MERCHANTIBILITY\s0 \s-1AND\s0 \s-1FITNESS\s0 \s-1FOR\s0 A \s-1PARTICULAR\s0 \s-1PURPOSE\s0. |
| 298 | .PP |
| 299 | The End |