The Mahogany `Artistic License'

This is the license under which all original source code developed for Mahogany is licensed and distributed.
It is not our intend to restrict other developers in re-using our code and because of this we also allow licensing the program under GPL license. Finally, if you feel that you want to do something with the Mahogany source that neither of these licenses may permit, please get in touch with us.

Preamble

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.

This license is based on Perl's `Artistic License' and has been adapted to better suit Mahogany. It aims to confirm with the Open-Source specification.

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. 

Terms and Conditions of Use

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 and only distribute the complete package as a whole. 
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: 
1. 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 libary if that software or libary is not Freely Available or if it is covered under a license more restrictive than this. 
2. use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. 
3. 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: 
1. 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. 
2. 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 libary if that software or libary is not Freely Available or if it is covered under a license more restrictive than this. 
3. 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. 
4. 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. 
6. 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. 
7. 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.