
			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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