1 2=head1 NAME 3 4perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License 5 6=head1 SYNOPSIS 7 8 You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>" 9 Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic" 10 11=head1 DESCRIPTION 12 13Perl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 14it under the terms of either: 15 16 a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free 17 Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any 18 later version, or 19 20 b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit. 21 22This is B<"The Artistic License">. 23It's here so that modules, programs, etc., that want to declare 24this as their distribution license can link to it. 25 26For the GNU General Public License, see L<perlgpl>. 27 28=head1 The "Artistic License" 29 30=head2 Preamble 31 32The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a 33Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some 34semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, 35while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute 36the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make 37reasonable modifications. 38 39=head2 Definitions 40 41=over 42 43=item "Package" 44 45refers to the collection of files distributed by the 46Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created 47through textual modification. 48 49=item "Standard Version" 50 51refers to such a Package if it has not been 52modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the 53Copyright Holder as specified below. 54 55=item "Copyright Holder" 56 57is whoever is named in the copyright or 58copyrights for the package. 59 60=item "You" 61 62is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this Package. 63 64=item "Reasonable copying fee" 65 66is whatever you can justify on the basis 67of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on. 68(You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but 69only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the 70fee.) 71 72=item "Freely Available" 73 74means that no fee is charged for the item 75itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also 76means that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same 77conditions they received it. 78 79=back 80 81=head2 Conditions 82 83=over 84 85=item 1. 86 87You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the 88Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you 89duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. 90 91=item 2. 92 93You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications 94derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A Package 95modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version. 96 97=item 3. 98 99You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided 100that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and 101when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the 102following: 103 104=over 105 106=item a) 107 108place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them 109Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an 110equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site 111such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include 112your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. 113 114=item b) 115 116use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. 117 118=item c) 119 120rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with 121standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide a 122separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly 123documents how it differs from the Standard Version. 124 125=item d) 126 127make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. 128 129=back 130 131=item 4. 132 133You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or 134executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: 135 136=over 137 138=item a) 139 140distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, 141together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where 142to get the Standard Version. 143 144=item b) 145 146accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the 147Package with your modifications. 148 149=item c) 150 151give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly 152document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with 153instructions on where to get the Standard Version. 154 155=item d) 156 157make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. 158 159=back 160 161=item 5. 162 163You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this 164Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this 165Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, 166you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly 167commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software 168distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a 169product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter within 170an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere 171form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the 172interpreter is so embedded. 173 174=item 6. 175 176The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as 177output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall 178under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated 179them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this 180Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this 181Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a 182binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall 183neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it 184fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do 185not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this 186Package. 187 188=item 7. 189 190C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other 191languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to 192emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this 193Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the 194equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do 195not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the 196regression tests for the language. 197 198=item 8. 199 200Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always 201permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, 202when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible 203to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be 204construed as a distribution of this Package. 205 206=item 9. 207 208The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote 209products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 210 211 212=item 10. 213 214THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR 215IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED 216WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 217 218=back 219 220The End 221 222=cut 223 224 225