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The swApps ``Modified Artistic License'' |
This is the license under which all original swApp source code
is licensed and distributed.
This license is based on Perl's
Artistic License
and has been adapted to better suit our intentions.
In brief, we don't care if you make money with our software
as long as you give us the credit we're due,
so the Artistic License restrictions relating to for-profit activity
have been removed.
It aims to conform with the
open source specification.
It is not our intent to restrict others from using our code.
If you feel that you want to do something with the source or the binaries
that this license doesn't permit, please
get in touch with us.
The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which this
software 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.
- ``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.
- ``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.
Terms and Conditions of Use |
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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 and only
distribute the complete package as a whole.
-
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.
-
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:
-
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 sunsite.unc.edu,
or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the
Standard Version of the Package, and 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. You must
not
make the modified version depend on any other software or library if that
software or library is not Freely Available or if it is covered under a
license more restrictive than this.
-
use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
-
make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
-
You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable
form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
-
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.
-
accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package
with your modifications, including the complete machine-readable source
of the unmodified Standard Version. You must not make the modified
version depend on any other software or library if that software or library
is not Freely Available or if it is covered under a license more restrictive
than this.
-
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.
-
make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
-
You may charge a copying fee for any distribution of this Package.
You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package.
You may charge a fee for this Package itself,
either individually or as a part of a larger (possibly commercial)
software distribution.
However, under no circumstances may you advertise this Package
as a product of your own.
-
The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
However, all products derived from this software must reproduce the original
copyright notice as found in the Standard Version.
-
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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