Despite the fact that I couldn't find Perl's license in the man pages, I'm lead to believe that Perl is covered by the Artistic License... is this right? Especially since it's ActiveState Perl I'm considering

Essentially my reasoning is this:

Most Windoze users don't have Perl. So if I copied and included PERL.EXE with the package, would this work (I can't really verify this accurately on my home computer, as the rest of Perl is still present. However, the 20K exe file seems to work well separated from the rest of ActiveState Perl).

This would then be run from a batchfile with the single line:

@perl myproggie.pl

so the source isn't munged up by bat2pl ing it for Unix users.

Can anyone see any gaping holes?

In reply to Copying Perl by dmckee

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