Unix Programming - Varieties of Open-Source Licensing - Artistic License
Artistic License
The next most restrictive kind of license grants unrestricted
rights to copy, use, and locally modify. It allows redistribution of
modified binaries, but restricts redistribution of modified sources in
ways intended to protect the interests of the authors and the
free-software community.
The Artistic License, devised for Perl and widely used in the Perl developer
community, is of this kind. It requires modified files to contain
“prominent notice” that they have been altered. It also
requires people who redistribute changes to make them freely available
and make efforts to propagate them back to the free-software
community.
You can find a copy of the Artistic License at the OSI
site.
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