In fact, this is exactly what ActiveState has done with ActivePerl. They explicitly state that they are using the Artistic License in their redistribution of Perl source, binaries, and modules. For their own value-adds, they use their own license-- which, IIRC, is a fairly friendly license (although most of its friendliness is due to the fact that they have to comply with either the AL or the GPL). What impact ActiveState specifically removing the GPL from the license options has, I don't want to speculate.

I've never actually perused the licenses on any of the modules I've downloaded from CPAN or in the Perl core module set, as I'm under the impression that they are all covered under the same terms as Perl (using phrases recommended by the Artistic License itself in most cases). Are there any exceptions that are notable in this regard?\

Clarification: the following is from the ActivePerl 'copyright.html' file in their installed distribution: ActiveState Tool Corp., has chosen to use all Open Source content in the ActivePerl Package under the terms of the Artistic License. Which I interpret to mean that they are explicitly choosing one of the licenses out of the dual license offering, and would guess this affects work derived from ActiveState's distribution.

In reply to (ichimunki) re x 6: licensing confusion by ichimunki
in thread licensing confusion by david54321

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