Re: [MacPerl] Perl Artistic License

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

>At 17.47 1998.03.12, nghai wrote:
>>If I'm distributing a runtime created by MacPerl, how does this fall into
>>the Perl Artistic License?
>>
>>The runtime is currently distributed as Freeware but may become or future
>>programs may be shareware...is there a difference?
>
>Christ Nandor replied
>>As I understand it, you can give away, sell, change, redistribute in any
>>manner, what you create that runs on Perl or MacPerl.  The one thing you
>>cannot do is change MacPerl and call it MacPerl.
>>
>>But as always, IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer).
>
>That makes sense but since the MacPerl runtime technically contains the
>MacPerl interpreter, would that be considered redistributing MacPerl?

No. Although technically it would be possible to turn a runtime into
a MacPerl application again, I consider it simply a Perl script with a 
(rather large) bit of glue code :-)

Matthias

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