Artistic License
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The Artistic License is a software license used for certain free software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation, most CPAN modules and Parrot, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License (GPL). It was written by Larry Wall.
Whether or not the original Artistic License is a free software license is largely undecided. It is often heavily criticised for being ambiguous, self-contradictory, and thus virtually impossible to interpret. The Free Software Foundation has gone so far to say that it is not a free software license, however, this has never been a contentious issue since all notable software that uses the original Artistic License are dual licensed along with the GPL.
There exists an Artistic License 2.0 which is generally agreed to be a free software license.[citation needed] It was written in response to a Perl community request for comments, and seems to be scheduled for adoption by the standard Perl implementation when version 6 is released. An early draft of the license was written by Bradley Kuhn, who later worked for Free Software Foundation. It was released as the "Clarified Artistic License", which is also a free software license, currently being used by the SNEeSe and FakeNES emulators, the Paros Proxy and NcFTP. This early draft was extensively rewritten by Roberta Cairney and Allison Randal for readability and legal clarity, with input from the Perl community.
The name of the licence is a reference to the concept of artistic licence.
[edit] External links
- 2.0 revision RFC process
- The Artistic License (the original Artistic License, the one which is still used by Perl and CPAN)
- The Artistic License 2.0
- The Clarified Artistic License
- Dusk first online Novel and Blog written under Artistic License 2.0
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