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      <h1 property="dc:title">Artistic License 1.0 (dist)</h1>
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      <h2>Full name</h2>
          <p style="margin-left: 20px;"><code property="spdx:name">Artistic License 1.0 (dist)</code></p>

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          <p style="margin-left: 20px;"><code property="spdx:licenseId">Artistic-dist</code></p>

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               <a href="https://github.com/pexip/os-perl/blob/833cf4c86cc465ccfc627ff16db67e783156a248/debian/copyright#L2720-L2845" rel="rdfs:seeAlso" isValid=true isLive=true isWayBackLink=false match=false timestamp=2025-07-01T15:01:14Z>https://github.com/pexip/os-perl/blob/833cf4c86cc465ccfc627ff16db67e783156a248/debian/copyright#L2720-L2845</a>
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      <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
          <p style="margin-left: 20px;">This license is very similar to Artistic-1.0-Perl, but uses a different clause 7 and has changes in clause 5.</p>

      <h2 id="licenseText">Text</h2>
      
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            The &quot;Artistic License&quot;
         </var>
         <p>
            Preamble
         </p>

         <p>
            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.
         </p>

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            It also grants you the rights to reuse parts of a Package in
            your own programs without transferring this License to those
            programs, provided that you meet some reasonable requirements.
         </p>

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            Definitions:
         </p>

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            &quot;Package&quot; refers to the collection of files distributed
            by the Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that
            collection of files created through textual modification.
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            &quot;Standard Version&quot; 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.
         </p>

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            &quot;Copyright Holder&quot; is whoever is named in
            the copyright or copyrights for the package.
         </p>

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            &quot;You&quot; is you, if you&apos;re thinking about
            copying or distributing this Package.
         </p>

         <p>
            &quot;Reasonable copying fee&quot; 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.)
         </p>

         <p>
            &quot;Freely Available&quot; 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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<li>
               <var class="replaceable-license-text"><span title="can be replaced with the pattern .{0,20}"> 1.</span></var>
               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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                     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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                     use the modified Package only within
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                     rename any non-standard executables so the names do
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               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.
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               Package via the so-called &quot;undump&quot; or &quot;unexec&quot; methods of
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               provided that you explicitly state where you got them from,
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