Re: Licensing of Perl Modules

Perl licensing has bigger problems than that.

The Artistic License sounds nice, but legally is clear as mud.

If only the problems stopped there. Grab an old version of Perl. Grab a current one. Read the Artistic License that comes with both. They are significantly different. You may well wonder how this legal trick was achieved...

Oh, and Perl 1 was produced by an employee (Larry Wall) at the NSA during work hours as part of his job. If the US Govt wanted to press the point, Larry probably didn't really own the copyright.

Do you really want to open this can of worms?

And not to pick nits, but the FSF has not recommended the use of version 1 of the GPL in many, many years. If anyone does follow your advice with new code, they should specify version 2 or better.

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Re: Re: Licensing of Perl Modules by dondelelcaro (Monk) on Feb 05, 2003 at 16:33 UTC
And not to pick nits, but the FSF has not recommended the use of version 1 of the GPL in many, many years. If anyone does follow your advice with new code, they should specify version 2 or better. That's correct, but I didn't mean to suggest that people should use those terms. Those just happen to be the terms that perl is currently released under.	[reply]