selfforum-cgi/LICENSE

   1 The "Artistic License"
   2
   3 Preamble
   4
   5 The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
   6 Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
   7 semblance of artistic control over the development of the package, while
   8 giving the users of the package the right to use and distribute the
   9 Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make
  10 reasonable modifications.
  11
  12
  13 Definitions
  14
  15 "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the Copyright
  16 Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created through
  17 textual modification.
  18
  19 "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been modified,
  20 or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of the Copyright
  21 Holder as specified below.
  22
  23 "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or copyrights
  24 for the package.
  25
  26 "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing this
  27 Package.
  28
  29 "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the basis of
  30 media cost, duplication charges, time of people involved, and so on.
  31 (You will not be required to justify it to the Copyright Holder, but
  32 only to the computing community at large as a market that must bear the
  33 fee.)
  34
  35 "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item itself,
  36 though there may be fees involved in handling the item. It also means
  37 that recipients of the item may redistribute it under the same
  38 conditions they received it.
  39
  40 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
  41    Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that
  42    you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated
  43    disclaimers.
  44
  45 2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other modifications
  46    derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright Holder. A
  47    Package modified in such a way shall still be considered the Standard
  48    Version.
  49
  50 3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way,
  51    provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file
  52    stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do
  53    at least ONE of the following:
  54
  55    a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make
  56       them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to
  57       Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a
  58       major archive site such as ftp.uu.net, or by allowing the
  59       Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard
  60       Version of the Package.
  61
  62    b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or
  63       organization.
  64
  65    c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
  66       with standard executables, which must also be provided, and
  67       provide a separate manual page for each non-standard executable
  68       that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version.
  69
  70    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
  71
  72 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
  73    executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
  74
  75    a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files,
  76       together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on
  77       where to get the Standard Version.
  78
  79    b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the
  80       Package with your modifications.
  81
  82    c) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding
  83       Standard Version executables, giving the non-standard executables
  84       non-standard names, and clearly documenting the differences in
  85       manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where
  86       to get the Standard Version.
  87
  88    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
  89
  90 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
  91    Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
  92    Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
  93    you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
  94    commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial)
  95    software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package
  96    as a product of your own.
  97
  98 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
  99    output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
 100    under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated
 101    them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
 102    Package.
 103
 104 7. C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package
 105    shall not be considered part of this Package.
 106
 107 8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
 108    promote products derived from this software without specific prior
 109    written permission.
 110
 111 9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
 112    WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 113    MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 114
 115 The End