Re: Encrypted Perl?

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Doesn't this somehow violate the Perl license? Certainly it defeats the spirit of it, doesn't it?

Or am I just naively confusing Perl with opensource?

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Re: Re: Encrypted Perl? by steves (Curate) on Feb 06, 2003 at 03:49 UTC
Good question. Read #6 of The Perl Artistic License. Basically, code fed to Perl is not covered under the same license as Perl itself. It's up to the author. I have used one piece of purchased Perl software that encrypted this way. They only encrypted their code -- not modules provided by Perl; not modules written by others and pulled from CPAN. As for the spirit ... depends on how much of an Open Source zealot you really are I guess. Certainly it would offend RMS. I'm less of a zealot so my spirt was not offended.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Encrypted Perl?
by steves (Curate) on Feb 06, 2003 at 03:49 UTC

Good question. Read #6 of The Perl Artistic License. Basically, code fed to Perl is not covered under the same license as Perl itself. It's up to the author.

I have used one piece of purchased Perl software that encrypted this way. They only encrypted their code -- not modules provided by Perl; not modules written by others and pulled from CPAN.

As for the spirit ... depends on how much of an Open Source zealot you really are I guess. Certainly it would offend RMS. I'm less of a zealot so my spirt was not offended.

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