Reading the threads on use.perl relating to the announcement posted today, it was suggested that distributing applications built with ActivePerl using PAR requires permission from ActiveState.

Whilst I'm not (yet) actually publishing perl apps for Windows this way, I've always considered that this was acceptable within Perl's licence terms, and those of ActivePerl by implication.

The page in ActivePerl's shipped documentation reads:

Licensing

The ActivePerl Package is covered by the ActiveState Community License.

The source code used in the ActivePerl Package comprises of both Open Source and proprietary software components.

All the Open Source components used in the ActivePerl Package are distributed by their original authors under the same licensing terms as Perl. The following is a full list of such components:

• Perl
• Bundled Perl modules
  • Archive-Tar
  • Archive-Zip
  • Compress-Zlib
  • Data-Dump
  • Digest-HMAC
  • Digest-MD2
  • Digest-MD4
  • Digest-MD5
  • Digest-SHA1
  • File-CounterFile
  • Font-AFM
  • HTML-Parser
  • HTML-TagSet
  • HTML-Tree
  • libnet
  • libwww-perl
  • libwin32
  • MD5
  • MIME-Base64-Scripts
  • SOAP-Lite
  • Term-ReadLine-Perl
  • TermReadKey
  • Text-Autoformat
  • Text-Reform
  • Tk
  • Unicode-String
  • URI
  • XML-Parser
  • XML-Simple

ActiveState Tool Corp., has chosen to use all Open Source content in the ActivePerl Package under the terms of the Artistic License.

All other components included in the ActivePerl Package are original works of ActiveState Tool Corp., and may be used under the terms of the ActiveState Community License.

To my mind, this would suggest it is OK to distribute applications with PAR, including perl.dll, but IANAL. If ActivePerl is restricted in this way, CamelPack et al would be most welcome.

Could someone please advise whether this is the case.

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