Hi,

I've never been one that gets fanatical about licenses, but I need to deal with it now, so I would like to ask for your opinion.

I have a program I wrote at school for internal use in my lab, and now we want to release it to the public. My boss is flexible about choosing the license under which we will release the software.

We don't want to use GPL because we feel it "contaminates" software by propagating itself to derivative works. So I am considering using the Artistic License. It looks good, except for items 6, 7, and the last phrase of item 5 (starting at "You may embed this Package's interpreter"), which seem specific to the perl distribution. So we could use the Artistic License as is, or modify it to remove those parts.

We could also go with something simpler, such as a BSD-style license.

I'd be very happy to read your thoughts, ideas or suggestions about this, particularly if you have dealt with these issues before.

Thanks,

--ZZamboni

P.S. I noticed that the Artistic license from CPAN is different than the one from opensource.org. Anyone knows why?

In reply to How to license a program written in Perl? by ZZamboni

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