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			 The "Artistic License"
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				Preamble
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The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
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Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
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semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
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while giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute
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the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
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reasonable modifications.
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Definitions:
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	"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
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	Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
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	created through textual modification.
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	"Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
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	modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes
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	of the Copyright Holder as specified below.
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	"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
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	copyrights for the package.
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	"You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
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	this Package.
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	"Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the
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	basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved,
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	and so on.  (You will not be required to justify it to the
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	Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at large
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	as a market that must bear the fee.)
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	"Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
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	itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item.
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	It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it
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	under the same conditions they received it.
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1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
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Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you
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duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
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2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
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derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder.  A Package
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modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard Version.
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3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided
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that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and
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when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the
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following:
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    a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them
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    Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or
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    an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive
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    site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include
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    your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.
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    b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
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    c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
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    with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide
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    a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly
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    documents how it differs from the Standard Version.
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    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
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executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
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    a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files,
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    together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where
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    to get the Standard Version.
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    b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
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    the Package with your modifications.
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    c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly
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    document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together
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    with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.
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    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
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Package.  You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
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Package.  You may not charge a fee for this Package itself.  However,
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you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
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commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
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distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
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product of your own.  You may embed this Package's interpreter within
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an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere
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form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the
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interpreter is so embedded.
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6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
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output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
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under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated
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them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
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Package.  If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this
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Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a
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binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall
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neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it
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fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do
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not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this
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Package.
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7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other
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languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to
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emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this
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Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the
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equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do
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not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the
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regression tests for the language.
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8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always
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permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is,
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when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible
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to the end user of the commercial distribution.	 Such use shall not be
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construed as a distribution of this Package.
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9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
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products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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