I am running Mac OS X 10.9.4 with perl 5.18...

Learning to use module-starter as described in Intermediate Perl chapter 12...

Upon running  module-starter --module=Animal with author and email and verbose in a config file,

then running perl Build.PL

an error is generated based upon the license option, as follows: 

perl Build.PL
Could not get valid metadata. Error is: Invalid metadata structure. 
Errors: License 'Artistic_2_0' is invalid (license -> Artistic_2_0) 
[Validation: 2] at 
/usr/local/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl5.18.2/lib/site_perl/5.18.2/Module
+/Build/Base.pm line 4558.

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

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The same thing happens if I put a "license:perl" option in the config file. The same thing happens if I put --license=perl on the command line.

However, if I manually modify the Build.PL script to say license => 'perl', then running perl Build.PL works without error. Any thoughts on why this is happening? The module-starter program is creating an invalid license specification.

Thanks!

In reply to Problem Using module-starter by wlh4

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