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perlartistic (1)

Name

perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License

Synopsis

You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>"
Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic"

Description




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NAME
     perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License

SYNOPSIS
      You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>"
      Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic"

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.




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     "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



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         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



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         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 MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS
         FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

     The End



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     +---------------+------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Availability   | runtime/perl-512 |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
     +---------------+------------------+
NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from
     http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.











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