License:Aladdin-9

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Name Aladdin Free Public License version 9
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Comment Despite its name, this is not a free software license because it does

not allow charging for distribution, and largely prohibits simply packaging software licensed under it with anything for which a charge is made.

We have provided links to these licenses when we can do so without violating our general policy: that we do not make links to sites that promote, encourage or facilitate the use of nonfree software packages.

License text

Aladdin Free Public License
(Version 9, September 18, 2000)

Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Aladdin Enterprises,
Menlo Park, California, U.S.A. All rights reserved.

    NOTE: This License is not the same as any of the GNU Licenses
    published by the Free Software Foundation. Its terms are
    substantially different from those of the GNU Licenses. If you are
    familiar with the GNU Licenses, please read this license with
    extra care.

Aladdin Enterprises hereby grants to anyone the permission to apply
this License to their own work, as long as the entire License
(including the above notices and this paragraph) is copied with no
changes, additions, or deletions except for changing the first
paragraph of Section 0 to include a suitable description of the work
to which the license is being applied and of the person or entity that
holds the copyright in the work, and, if the License is being applied
to a work created in a country other than the United States, replacing
the first paragraph of Section 6 with an appropriate reference to the
laws of the appropriate country.

This License is not an Open Source license: among other things, it
places restrictions on distribution of the Program, specifically
including sale of the Program. While Aladdin Enterprises respects and
supports the philosophy of the Open Source Definition, and shares the
desire of the GNU project to keep licensed software freely
redistributable in both source and object form, we feel that Open
Source licenses unfairly prevent developers of useful software from
being compensated proportionately when others profit financially from
their work. This License attempts to ensure that those who receive,
redistribute, and contribute to the licensed Program according to the
Open Source and Free Software philosophies have the right to do so,
while retaining for the developer(s) of the Program the power to make
those who use the Program to enhance the value of commercial products
pay for the privilege of doing so.  0. Subject Matter This License
applies to the computer programs known as "AFPL Ghostscript", "AFPL
Ghostscript PCL5e", "AFPL Ghostscript PCL5c", and "AFPL Ghostscript
PXL".  The "Program", below, refers to such program. The Program is a
copyrighted work whose copyright is held by Artifex Software Inc.,
located in San Rafael California and artofcode LLC, located in
Benicia, California (the "Licensor"). Please note that AFPL
Ghostscript is neither the program known as "GNU Ghostscript" nor the
version of Ghostscript available for commercial licensing from Artifex
Software Inc.

A "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any
derivative work of the Program, as defined in the United States
Copyright Act of 1976, such as a translation or a modification.

BY MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THE PROGRAM (OR ANY WORK BASED ON THE
PROGRAM), YOU INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS LICENSE TO DO SO, AND
ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTING OR MODIFYING
THE PROGRAM OR WORKS BASED ON IT. NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS LICENSE
GRANTS YOU PERMISSION TO MODIFY OR DISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM OR ITS
DERIVATIVE WORKS. THESE ACTIONS ARE PROHIBITED BY LAW. IF YOU DO NOT
ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT MODIFY OR DISTRIBUTE THE
PROGRAM.

1. Licenses.

Licensor hereby grants you the following rights, provided that you
comply with all of the restrictions set forth in this License and
provided, further, that you distribute an unmodified copy of this
License with the Program:

(a) You may copy and distribute literal (i.e., verbatim) copies of the
    Program's source code as you receive it throughout the world, in
    any medium.

(b) You may modify the Program, create works based on the Program and
    distribute copies of such throughout the world, in any medium.

2. Restrictions.

This license is subject to the following restrictions:

(a) Distribution of the Program or any work based on the Program by a
    commercial organization to any third party is prohibited if any
    payment is made in connection with such distribution, whether
    directly (as in payment for a copy of the Program) or indirectly
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    enumeration of prohibited activities). The following methods of
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    (i) Posting the Program on a public access information storage and
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        fee is not content-dependent (i.e., the fee would be the same
        for retrieving the same volume of information consisting of
        random data) and that access to the service and to the Program
        is available independent of any other product or service. An
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        only available to customers of that company. (This is not an
        exhaustive enumeration.)

   (ii) Distributing the Program on removable computer-readable media,
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(b) Activities other than copying, distribution and modification of
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    its scope. Functional use (running) of the Program is not
    restricted, and any output produced through the use of the Program
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herein. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the
Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
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as such parties remain in full compliance.

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distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that
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excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if
written in the body of this License.

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NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
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PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL LICENSOR, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE
THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
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U.S.A., excluding choice of law rules.

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