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.

     "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights
     for the package.

     "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.

   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 associated 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 Standard 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 modifications to
     Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a
     major archive site such as ftp.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
     organization.

     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.

     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 following:

     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) 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.

     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 commercial) software distribution provided that you do not
   advertise this Package as a product of your own.

   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 whomever generated them, and may be sold
   commercially, and may be aggregated with this Package.

   7. C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall not
   be considered part of this Package.

   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.

   9. 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.

