1N/Aperlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
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1N/AThis is B<"The Artistic License">. It's here so that modules,
1N/Aprograms, etc., that want to declare this as their distribution
1N/Alicense, can link to it.
1N/AIt is also one of the two licenses Perl allows itself to be
1N/Aredistributed
and/or modified; for the other one, the GNU General
1N/APublic License, see the L<perlgpl>.
1N/A=head1 The "Artistic License"
1N/AThe intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
1N/APackage may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
1N/Asemblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
1N/Awhile giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
1N/Athe Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
1N/Areasonable modifications.
1N/Arefers to the collection of files distributed by the
1N/ACopyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created
1N/Athrough textual modification.
1N/A=item "Standard Version"
1N/Arefers to such a Package if it has not been
1N/Amodified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the
1N/ACopyright Holder as specified below.
1N/A=item "Copyright Holder"
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1N/Ais you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package.
1N/A=item "Reasonable copying fee"
1N/Ais whatever you can justify on the basis
1N/Aof media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on.
1N/A(You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but
1N/Aonly to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the
1N/A=item "Freely Available"
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1N/Aitself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also
1N/Ameans that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same
1N/Aconditions they received it.
1N/AYou may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
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1N/Aduplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
1N/AYou may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
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1N/Arename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with
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1N/Aequivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do
1N/Anot change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the
1N/Aregression tests for the language.
1N/AAggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
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