perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
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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 redistributed and/or modified; for the other one, the GNU General Public License, see the perlgpl.
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.
refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through textual modification.
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.
is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights for the package.
is you, if you're thinking about copying or dredistribute it under the same conditions they received it.
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.
use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
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.
make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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.
accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of ther 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.
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 tbroutines do not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the regression tests for the language.
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.
The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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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