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NAME

       perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Perl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

               a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
               Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
               later version, or

               b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit.

       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.

       For the GNU General Public License, see 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 MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

       The End

perl v5.38.2                                       2025-04-08                                    PERLARTISTIC(1)