unroar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm porting a CPAN module (MP4::Info) to Java for use in a commercial app. What am I required to do? It seems really unclear to me, I'm not even sure that I have to make my Java code available. Could that be true?

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Re: Artistic License and porting
by shlomif (Beadle) on Oct 14, 2007 at 17:30 UTC

    Well, from my understanding (see ESR's summary), if your copy is inclusive of the code in an Artistically-licensed code, then you can release modified binaries without restriction, and without needing to release the source. If you wish to release the source, you'll need to release the inclusive parts under the Artistic Licence.

    If your code is not inclusive, then you don't need to do anything.

    But of course, I'm not a lawyer.