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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 02:22:06 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 02:22:06 +0000 |
commit | 741c1ef7a4f2ac316ad6e557ddbe03023413478d (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 1:4.5.upstream/1%4.5upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +NOTE: + This license has been obsoleted by the change to the BSD-style copyright. + You may continue to use this license if you wish, but you are under no + obligation to do so. + +(* +This document is freely plagiarised from the 'Artistic Licence', +distributed as part of the Perl v4.0 kit by Larry Wall, which is +available from most major archive sites. I stole it from CrackLib. + + $Id$ +*) + +This documents purpose is to state the conditions under which this +Package (See definition below) viz: "Shadow", the Shadow Password Suite +which is held by Julianne Frances Haugh, 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. + +So there. + +*************************************************************************** + +Definitions: + + +A "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the +Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files created +through textual modification, or segments thereof. + +"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. 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