I was getting concerned about all the replies that Octavian had received to what I also thought was a question from him just about distributing programs in Perl that he had created. I'm glad that what you say confirms my understanding of that situation.
Eric R -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:activeperl- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gisle Aas Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:50 PM To: Octavian Rasnita Cc: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: perl licence On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:59, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Well, I don't think it is too complicated to create my own licence, > because there are very few things to specify in it, but what I > wanted to be sure is to be allowed to create commercial software > with perl legally. > > But it is ok if the artistic licence allows that. > > GPL doesn't permit it because it doesn't allow distributing the > software commercially to the clients without giving them > permissions to distribute it to others. > If we are talking about licences it means that the program should > be distributed, because otherwise why should we care what we can do > with it. I guess all the licences allow the owner of the program to > use it. To me it sounds like you are confusing the license to create and distribute programs in Perl (the language) versus distributing perl (the interpreter) and modifications of it. There are no restrictions on the programs you create using Perl the language. You own the programs you create and you are free to license them any way you want and to sell them commercially. There are restrictions on distributing perl (the interpreter) and modifications of it. This is where the Artistic license, GPL and the ActivePerl Community license comes into play. Restrictions also apply to the distribution of modules from CPAN. Not all CPAN modules use the same license as perl. --Gisle _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
