perl is under "your choice" of the Artistic License and the GNU GPL. AS can choose to use the Artistic License, which does not require the result to be free -- all it requires is that it be within the artistic vision of the original author -- in this case, the original author is Larry, who sits on AS's board, and thus would probably have had loud words about it had it not been within his artistic vision. As to the other copyrightholders, if a nonfree result wasn't in their artistic vision, they should have said so. (That said, the artistic license may be so vauge as to be invalid as a binding contract.)

Also, the nonfree AS stuff seems to mostly be original work, not modifications to the core of perl.

That said, I don't much like AS -- they seem to be ignoring perl6, when it could be the greatest thing that ever happened to them.

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In reply to Re: (OT) ActiveState by theorbtwo
in thread (OT) ActiveState by Anonymous Monk

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