Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL) Version 9 By Aladdin Enterprises
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Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, California,
U.S.A. All rights reserved.
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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
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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.
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* 1. Licenses. *
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