Another pass at redrafting the Artistic License

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Sat Sep 16 02:00:36 UTC 2000


On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:
> (To the folks on the license-discuss list.)  As you may know,
> Perl is currently undergoing a rewrite.  As part of this
> rewrite licensing is being reviewed, and we are attempting
> to come up with an Artistic License that is (*ahem*) on
> somewhat better grounds than the current one.  This is my
> current attempt but IANAL and I desperately need some legal
> types who are willing to comment on whether this will hold
> water, whether it will meet the OSD, etc.

This is a vastly different license than the old version. So I have to
ask, why the *huge* change? Another question is why there is a separate
agreement?

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David Johnson
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