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 redistributed 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 pack-age, package,
age, while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the Package in a more-or-less more-orless
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 promi-nent prominent
nent 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 modifica-tions modifications
tions 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 exe-cutable executable
cutable 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 instruc-tions instructions
tions (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 modifi-cations. modifications.
cations.
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. Version.
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 commercial) software distribution provided that you do not adver-tise advertise
tise 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 Para-graphs Paragraphs
graphs 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 Para-graph Paragraph
graph 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 con-strued construed
strued 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, WITH-OUT WITHOUT
OUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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