Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)

Also known as Artistic License 1.0 (Perl), Artistic-1.0-Perl, The Artistic License (Perl).

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: not required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-1.0-Perl

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Commercial use from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
- Rename from the text
- Source code from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
- Rename from the text
- Source code from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Charge license fee from the text
Promote from the text

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Alternative condition set: Clauses 3 and 4 each let the licensee satisfy any one of four listed alternatives.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Additional clauses

3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following: a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or placing the modifications on a major archive site such as uunet.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package. b) use the modified Package only within your corporation or organization. c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with standard executables, which must also be provided, and provide a separate manual page for each non-standard executable that clearly documents how it differs from the Standard Version. d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. 4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and library files, together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version. b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the Package with your modifications. c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly document the differences in manual pages (or equivalent), together with instructions on where to get the Standard Version. d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright Holder. 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However, you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution provided that you do not advertise this Package as a product of your own. You may embed this Package's interpreter within an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the interpreter is so embedded. 6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whoever generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this Package. If such scripts or library files are aggregated with this Package via the so-called "undump" or "unexec" methods of producing a binary executable image, then distribution of such an image shall neither be construed as a distribution of this Package nor shall it fall under the restrictions of Paragraphs 3 and 4, provided that you do not represent such an executable image as a Standard Version of this Package. 7. C subroutines (or comparably compiled subroutines in other languages) supplied by you and linked into this Package in order to emulate subroutines and variables of the language defined by this Package shall not be considered part of this Package, but are the equivalent of input as in Paragraph 6, provided these subroutines do not change the language in any way that would cause it to fail the regression tests for the language. 8. Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is always permitted provided that the use of this Package is embedded; that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial distribution. Such use shall not be construed as a distribution of this Package. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0-Perl.html
Legal code: http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier: Artistic-1.0-Perl on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: Artistic-1.0-Perl

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

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JSON sidecar

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-1.0-Perl",
  "license-title": "Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)",
  "spdx-id": "Artistic-1.0-Perl",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

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@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

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    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-1.0-Perl> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
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  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-1.0-Perl"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-1.0-Perl" rel="license">Artistic License 1.0 (Perl)</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-15
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 8 recorded, 6 applied to the record, 0 proposed

Models the Perl wording of the Artistic License 1.0, which carries the aggregation clause of the clause 8 variant plus three Perl specific paragraphs: the embedded interpreter, the undump and unexec image, and compiled subroutines linked into the Package. All three are carve-outs from the distribution obligations and are quoted verbatim. Nothing here is legal advice.

8 findings

major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Clause 1 grants verbatim copying of the source form ("You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers"), clause 3 grants modification and clause 4 grants distribution in object or executable form. The record therefore permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee (clause 5: "You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this Package").
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Clause 5 states "You may not charge a fee for this Package itself", modelled as a dalicc:chargeLicenseFee prohibition, and the endorsement clause states "The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission", modelled as a dalicc:promote prohibition. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited because the text grants no right to replace these terms; this follows the library convention carried by 309 of the 344 existing records.
minor Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off odrl:distribute (clause 1, duplicate all original copyright notices and associated disclaimers). cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice and dalicc:rename hang off odrl:modify and odrl:derive, following clause 3 ("insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file" and the option to "rename any non-standard executables"). Unlike the Artistic-2.0 record this record does not put cc:SourceCode on odrl:distribute, because clause 4 makes the machine-readable source only one of four alternatives.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The warranty clause is quoted verbatim. The license carries no separate liability clause, so dalicc:LiabilityLimitation is absent. The one-of-four option structure of clauses 3 and 4, the fee rules of clause 5 and the carve-outs of clauses 6 and 7 are quoted verbatim in dalicc:additionalClauses because the deontic model cannot express a disjunction of conditions.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

The text names no legal system and sets no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The vocabulary has no term for a duty that is discharged by satisfying any one of several listed alternatives. Proposed term: dalicc:alternativeConditionSet, a property over a list of duty nodes of which one must be met. The clauses are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses meanwhile.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer with the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.
major Rubric 10 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

Diffed against Artistic-1.0. Beyond the clause 8 aggregation paragraph the Perl text adds three carve-outs, for example "You may embed this Package's interpreter within an executable of yours (by linking); this shall be construed as a mere form of aggregation, provided that the complete Standard Version of the interpreter is so embedded." None of them changes what is permitted, prohibited or required, so the deontic model is identical to Artistic-1.0 and Artistic-1.0-cl8 and the paragraphs are carried in dalicc:additionalClauses.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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5 changes
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:rename]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:rename]
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following:"
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:rename]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:rename]
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way, provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do at least ONE of the following:"
- changed prohibition dalicc:chargeLicenseFee
  
  was prohibition dalicc:chargeLicenseFee
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may not charge a fee for this Package itself."
- changed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  was prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Artistic).

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