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¶
Perl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
of either:
a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
later version, or
b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit.
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.
For the GNU General Public License, see 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
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.
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 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 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
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)
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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 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.
- 7.
- 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.
- 8.
- 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.
- 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 PURPOSE.
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