Free Software Licensing Strategy -- Some guidelines

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:43:58AM +1100, Andrew J Bromage (Andrew.Bromage at its.monash.edu.au) wrote:
> G'day all.
> 
> Karsten, you've done an excellent job with this.  There is one point
> that I'd like to make which might be worth adding, as it's a common
> misconception.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:11:24AM -0800, kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> > The Artistic License is notable for its use with the Perl programming
> > language, however, it's a somewhat eclectic and ambiguous document.
> 
> The author of Perl and the Artistic License, Larry Wall, has publically
> stated several times that it was specifically designed to be used as
> part of a dual licensing scheme only.  For example:
> 
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-08/msg01317.html
>
> When choosing the Artistic License, if you ignore Larry's advice and
> do not dual license with some other open source licence, you do so at
> your own legal risk.

Thank you!  I was completely unaware of this.

Larry's comments, particularly about dual licensing being a neat hack
and self-propogating (Self-propogating?) meme are interesting as well.

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