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diff --git a/Artistic b/Artistic deleted file mode 100644 index fbf7989..0000000 --- a/Artistic +++ /dev/null @@ -1,117 +0,0 @@ - - - - - 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. 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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 subroutines 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. 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