# Licenses:PerlArtistic

For quick reference, the text of the Perl Artistic License as distributed with Arch Linux:

    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 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.

        "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 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 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 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)  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.

            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. 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 Paragraphs 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 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.

        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 construed 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, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
            MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

        The End

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