Well, as the artistic licence is more liberal than GPL, I don't think the perl programmers have problems distributing their programs if the artistic licence allow distributing commercial source code made in perl.
I don't want to distribute perl, but the programs made by me. But I have also heard that Java uses the GPL licence and it can be also used in commercial programs. (Although I don't think that GPL with exceptions used by Java is really GPL.) Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angelos Karageorgiou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:25 PM Subject: Re: perl licence > Hold on a second, > > A brand new program that you have created using any tools, including > GPL tools, can be either GPL or not depending on how you license it. > > If you use parts of another GPLed program within your code, then you > HAVE to GPL all of your program/code. > > > > > Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> Ok, thank you. Now I understand better. >> >> So a GPL program can be used in another commercial program which is sold for >> money without offering it's source code, but the GPL part should be licenced >> as GPL so it could be distributed freely. >> >> Did I understand correctly? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > ActivePerl mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
