The profile file is an XML document. My current "profile" on this Win XP laptop is shown below.

What you can or cannot do with software can get into a very complicated legal mess.
I don't understand this question:
Now Perl is 5.24... Is that possibly means it's really free now? XD

There are complicated licensing issues. A main thing that AS wants to prohibit is re-distribution of old software versions. If you install AS Perl on a client machine, they want to force you to install from their website, not an image that might be 5 years old. So I can't just burn my C:\Perl directory onto a DVD and ship that.

I can ship an Active State generated .exe file as a standalone program. I have a AS PerlApp license. That is fine.

What you can and cannot do with different licenses of "freeware" is complicated. I am not a lawyer. I haven't built an .exe file in some years. There are AS license requirements as well as each module's limitations. This can get complicated. This can get into a) a technical aspect of whether or not I can generate said .exe file and then b) whether it is legal for me to sell that product (or even give it away free) to you

My version 5.20 profile: 

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If your user installs Active State from the AS website and then "runs" this profile file, that is fine because your user is just re-creating what I did for "free" from the original sources. There is a legal difference between a) I give you my copy of the above software rather than b) you making your own copy direct from the "source". Most modules don't have any source code copy re-distribution limits at all, but Active State software does.

In reply to Re^3: Is ActivePerl repositories go free again? by Marshall
in thread Is ActivePerl repositories go free again? by exilepanda

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