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. "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. 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 ftp.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) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding Standard 
Version executables, giving the non-standard executables non-standard names, and 
clearly documenting 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.

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 whomever generated them, and may be sold 
commercially, and may be aggregated with this Package.

7. C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package shall not 
be considered part of this Package.

8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote 
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

9. 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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