On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote:
You have Perl on that list but Perl is not GPL.
"Perl is Open Source software. It's free for you to download and use
as you wish. Perl's license is called the Artistic license. Read it if
you aren't sure what you can or can't do. The bottom line is that this
is a kinder and gentler version of the GNU license -- one that doesn't
infect your work if you care to borrow from Perl or package up pieces
of it as part of a commercial product!" -perl.com
man perlartistic
It is not GPL, but confusing and unfree enough. My understanding:
If you modify, you must place your modifications in public domain, or make
freely available, or give back to perl, or use changes only within your
own organization.
You may not charge for perl other than reasonable copying fee or for
professional support. You may not sell a product that includes embedded
perl unless the complete standard version of perl interpreter is included
(so no derivative).
Compare with nawk (not to say awk is as usable though): you may modify and
distribute any way you want and you may charge any price you want for a
product based on any part of it. (Just don't use the copyright owner's
name and include the very brief copyright and permission notice in your
documentation.)
Jeremy C. Reed
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