You're really going to have to do your homework if you want to sell a product that's reliant on CPAN modules (ie, you may have to negotiate a separate license from the module creator - if you can find him/her). *Or* you would have to package your application in such a way that part of it is *free* and part of it is not.

This is incorrect. The CPAN module license only comes into play if you want to redistribute said module. Anyone is perfectly free to write a Perl application using tons of CPAN modules and distribute this application under any license they choose (e.g. close-source and charge for it), as long as what they distribute is merely the application code itself. If they want to distribute the modules as well in a package, then you are correct, they would have to clarify that these modules are under the original license (GPL/Artistic/whatever). But merely distributing ones own code which relies on CPAN modules does not have any licensing implications for this code.IANAL etc.


All dogma is stupid.

In reply to Re^2: Selling your Perl app by tirwhan
in thread Selling your Perl app by whakka

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