Re: [MacPerl] Distributing reduced MacPerl package with Droplet ?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

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Toni Zollikofer <r18466@email.sps.mot.com> writes:
>From reading the Artistic license, I am not sure, if I have understood the
>authors words correctly.

Basically, you should go by the *intent* of the license which is that you
should be free do do anything "ethical".

> Question: Am I allowed to redistribute the MacPerl package, reduced to only
> the files, that are necessary to run the script (for sure including licence
> statements, readme etc.)?

Absolutely. In the given case, it would be good to

 - Make it obvious that you're distributing a subset of the distribution.
 - Point out where the full distribution is available.

As long as those two points are covered, I'm all in favor of subset
distributions.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
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