Display Tag 的Artistic license是否许可商业使用

我现在需要用到Display Tag,而且,事实上已经用了。今天看了下它的协议 Artistic license，我实在没有读懂。看了中文的翻译，也还是不很清楚。我只是想使用Display Tag于商业软件，是否可行？如果我还想修改下Display Tag的部分代码，那还能使用么？
从事软件开发行业，希望大众能够尊重版权，自己当然也要了。所以慎重地在这里讨论下。
请行家帮忙看下。谢谢。

协议原文链接：http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/11/license.html
这里还有个中文翻译：http://openvanilla.org/wiki/zh/index.php?title=The_Artistic_License%E5%8F%83%E8%80%83%E4%B8%AD%E8%AD%AF

另外，Javaeye关于开源协议的一篇讨论，供大家参考：
常用开源协议解析

原文贴出来如下：（方便不想点开链接的朋友）

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The Artistic License

Preamble

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.

"Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
created through textual 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.


1. 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.


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.

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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.

对于b点，如果我修改了Display Tag的源码，不发布到外部。那么似乎我可以在公司内部一直使用。没有问题吧？

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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.

照这一条，不明白的是b项， machine-readable source of the Package with your modifications是不是二进制的编译好的jar包就可以？还是必须是源代码？

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5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this
Package.  You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package.
You may not charge a fee for this Package itself.  However,
you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software
distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a
product of your own.

第5条我可以看出只要我不修改源码那么跟随商业软件发布是没有问题的。但是如果我做了部分修改呢？

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6. 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 whomever generated
them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
Package.


7. C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this Package
shall not be considered part of this Package.


8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software 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.


The End

评论

3 楼 phpxer 2007-07-02  

请教了一些朋友，都说是可以的。
谢谢大家。

2 楼 海妖的夜 2007-07-01  

可以的.第五条说明条件为你不得宣称本软件套件系你所拥有之产品.

1 楼 rainlife 2007-07-01  

应该是可以的，但是在您的商业产品中予以注明，也是对display tag的一种尊重。