All software in this release is Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Edward Barlow and 
SQL Technologies. All rights reserved.

You have the right to use and redistribute this software as you wish with
the following stipulations:

	1) If you intend to release any part of this package as a part of a
		commercial package, you must contact the author for permission and
		a redistribution license.  Basically, figure out a fair price for
		use of this software and send me a check.
	2) If you use any of the packages labeled as shareware for more than
		a month in a commercial enterprise, you are required to purchase a
		license for that product.  A license is not required for educational
		or home use.
	3) You may redistribute and/or modify these programs under the same terms 
		as Perl itself.   As a courtesy, i ask that you notify me of changes
		so i can include your changes in the baseline package.
	4) Submission of suggestions, bug fixes, or enhancements does not alter the
		copyright on this package in any way.  By notifying me, you give up any 
		legal rights to your ideas.  I will maintain copyright notices that you
		place in your code and will give credit where due, but will have the 
		right to redistribute changes under whatever terms I choose.

In english, this is "mostly free" software - i dont make much money off
it - but reserve the right to do so.  If you wish the software to get better, 
make suggestions and send me code modifications (its all open source).  I'll 
happily incorporate any and all ideas - but I will not giving up rights to the 
(paltry) revenue stream I get from this work.  I am somewhat motivated by
making this package a commercial success - and my supporting and enhancment
of these tools is directly related to their commercial viability - so if you 
find the freeware and shareware aspects of this software useful - please 
support me by purchasing a shareware license (its not like its expensive). 

Please review the file Artistic.txt.

There is absolutely and totally no waranty on any kind on this software.

Ed Barlow
January 2001
www.edbarlow.com
edbarlow@mad.scientist.com