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Clarified Artistic License [2009] PubRL 11 (1 January 2009)
Clarified Artistic License
Version: No
Copyright: No
URL: http://www.statistica.unimib.it/utenti/dellavedova/software/artistic2.html
Type: Content
Media: Software
Country: International
Licence text
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.
"Distribution fee" is a fee you charge for
providing a copy of this Package to another party.
"Freely Available"
means that no fee is charged for the right to use the item, 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.
- 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.
- You
may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications derived from the
Public Domain, or those made Freely Available,
or from the Copyright Holder. A
Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard
Version.
- 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:
- 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 network archive site allowing unrestricted
access to them, 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.
- permit
and encourge anyone who receives a copy of the modified Package permission to
make your modifications Freely Available in some
specific way.
- You
may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable form,
provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
- 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 the Package with your
modifications.
- 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.
- make
other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
- offer
the machine-readable source of the Package, with your modifications, by mail
order.
- You
may charge a distribution fee for any distribution of this Package. If you offer
support for this Package, you may charge any
fee you choose for that support.
You may not charge a license fee for the right to use this Package itself. You
may distribute this
Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial and
possibly nonfree) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial and
possibly
nonfree) software distribution, and charge license fees for other parts of that
software distribution, provided that you
do not advertise this Package as a
product of your own. If the Package includes an interpreter, 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 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.
- 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.
- Aggregation
of the Standard Version of the 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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