I am reading the O'Reilly book "Intermediate Perl" and I am not able to complete the exercises for chapter 12 "Creating Your Own Perl Distribution". I am using ActiveState Perl v5.16.1 on Windows XP. In my early attempts, I was required to install several packages with ppm. (Unforunately, I did not keep records) All the instalations went smoothly and eliminated the messages that motivated them. The remaining errors do not appear to be due to missing modules. 

C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12>module-starter --mb --m
+odule=Anim
al --author="Gilligan" --email=gilligan@island.example.com --verbose
Created Animal
Created Animal\lib
Created Animal\lib\Animal.pm
Created Animal\t
Created Animal\t\pod-coverage.t
Created Animal\t\pod.t
Created Animal\t\manifest.t
Created Animal\t\boilerplate.t
Created Animal\t\00-load.t
Created Animal\Build.PL
Created Animal\Changes
Created Animal\README
Added to MANIFEST: Build.PL
Added to MANIFEST: Changes
Added to MANIFEST: lib/Animal.pm
Added to MANIFEST: MANIFEST
Added to MANIFEST: README
Added to MANIFEST: t/00-load.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/boilerplate.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/manifest.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod-coverage.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod.t
Created Animal\MANIFEST
Created starter directories and files

C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12>

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This much runs without error and appears to create all required files. 


C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12\Animal>perl Build.PL
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
Could not get valid metadata. Error is: Invalid metadata structure. Er
+rors: Lice
nse 'Artistic_2_0' is invalid (license) [Validation: 1.4]
 at C:/Perl/lib/Module/Build/Base.pm line 4564.

Could not create MYMETA files
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Animal' version '0.01'

C:\Documents and Settings\bill\Perl\ip\chap_12\Animal>

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Please explain this message and how to fix it. Setting a --license for module-starter changes the message slightly, but does not really help.
Bill

In reply to Errors from Build.PL by BillKSmith

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