License To Worship (based on Artistic License)
This is the OPENWORSHIP.NET LICENSE TO WORSHIP based on the Artistic License as displayed at OpenSource.Org. This is a work in progress; if you have ideas or comments, please post them on the Message Board.
The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a Worship Song may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some semblance of artistic control over the development of the Worship Song, while giving the users of the Worship Song the right to use and distribute the Worship Song in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the right to make reasonable modifications.
Definitions:
- "Worship Song" refers to the combination of words and music distributed by the Copyright Holder, including but not limited to sound recordings, songsheets, chord charts, and music charts; and also derivatives of that combination created through textual or musical 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.
- "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.
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:
a) 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 ftp.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.
b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization.
c) 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.
d) 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:
a) 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.
b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package with your modifications.
c) accompany any non-standard executables with their corresponding Standard Version executables, giving the non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly documenting the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where to get the Standard Version.
d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder.
5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Worship Song. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Worship Song. You may not charge a fee for this Worship Song itself. However, you may distribute this Worship Song in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) songs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) distribution provided that you do not advertise this Worship Song as a product of your own.
8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Worship Song without specific prior written permission.
9. 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.