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Net Boolean Public License v1
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Net Boolean Public License v1
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NBPL-1.0
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The Net Boolean Public License
Version 1, 22 August 1998 Copyright 1998, Net Boolean Incorporated, Redwood City, California, USA All
Rights Reserved.
Note: This license is derived from the "Artistic License" as distributed with the Perl
Programming Language. Its terms are different from those of 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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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b)
use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
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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.
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d)
make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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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:
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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.
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b)
accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package with your modifications.
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c)
accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding Standard Version executables,
giving the non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly documenting the
differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where to get
the Standard Version.
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d)
make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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8.
The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
software without specific prior written permission.
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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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