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2026

Artistic License 2.0

Also known as Artistic License v2, Artistic Version 2.0, Artistic-2.0.

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-2.0

Permissions

  • Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text The text says: "You are permitted to use the Standard Version and create and use Modified Versions for any purpose without restriction, provided that you do not Distribute the Modified Version." Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text The text says: "In addition, the Modified Version must bear a name that is different from the name of the Standard Version." Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text The text says: "In addition, the Modified Version must bear a name that is different from the name of the Standard Version." Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Charge license fee from the text Not permitted: Charge license fee. Charging a fee for granting someone a license to the work.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. The text says: "This license does not grant you the right to use any trademark, service mark, tradename, or logo of the Copyright Holder." Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

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.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THE PACKAGE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES. THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY YOUR LOCAL LAW.

Limitation of liability

UNLESS REQUIRED BY LAW, NO COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTOR WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THE PACKAGE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Info

Target asset types
Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
http://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0
Legal code
http://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Attribution name
Perl Foundation
SPDX identifier
Artistic-2.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
Artistic-2.0

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.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar 

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-2.0",
  "license-title": "Artistic License 2.0",
  "spdx-id": "Artistic-2.0",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle 

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

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-2.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-2.0"
  }
}

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Artistic-2.0" rel="license">Artistic License 2.0</a>.</p>

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

Badge DALICC badge for Artistic License 2.0

Markdown 

[![License: Artistic License 2.0](https://dalicc.net/license-library/Artistic-2.0/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/Artistic-2.0)

HTML 

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/Artistic-2.0"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/Artistic-2.0/badge.svg" alt="License: Artistic License 2.0"></a>

Review

Status
Reviewed against the license text
Last checked
2026-09-15
Reviewer
Giray Havur
Verdict
corrected during the review
Record changed since this review
yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings
8 recorded, 4 applied to the record, 2 proposed

The Artistic License 2.0 permits use and modification "for any purpose without restriction" and distribution gratis or for a Distributor Fee; the one money restriction is that no licensing fee may be charged for the Package. The record prohibited commercial use outright, which reverses that, and carried no trademark prohibition and no warranty clause. All were corrected.

8 findings

  • major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    Clause 1 states: "You are permitted to use the Standard Version and create and use Modified Versions for any purpose without restriction", and clause 2 allows distribution "either gratis or for a Distributor Fee". The record prohibited cc:CommercialUse. Removed it, added the permission, and added the prohibition the text actually states, clause 7: "provided that you do not charge a licensing fee for the Package".

  • major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    Clause 12 states: "This license does not grant you the right to use any trademark, service mark, tradename, or logo of the Copyright Holder." Added the dalicc:promote prohibition.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    Clause 14 was not recorded. Added, split into the warranty and the liability field.

  • minor Rubric 3 odrl:permission proposed

    odrl:display and odrl:present are absent, which makes this the only software record in the review group without them. Clause 1 permits use "for any purpose without restriction", which covers both, but the license never names public display or performance, so it is proposed rather than applied.

  • info Rubric 5 odrl:duty none

    The dalicc:rename duty on modify and derive is supported by clause 4(b): "the Modified Version must bear a name that is different from the name of the Standard Version." dalicc:ChangeLicense with a compliance duty is supported by clause 4(c)(ii).

  • gap Rubric 8 vocabulary none

    Clause 13 grants a patent license and terminates the whole license on patent litigation. Clause 4 offers three alternative ways to comply, a structure the model cannot express: it can only state all three duties as if they were cumulative. Proposed: dalicc:patentGrant, dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination, dalicc:alternativeConditions.

  • minor Rubric 1 dct:publisher proposed

    dct:publisher is the placeholder "N.N." while cc:attributionName says "Perl Foundation".

  • minor Rubric 10 record applied

    Standard-license addition of 2026-09-15, decision 9 and 10: the record was corrected against its new siblings and versioned. Library convention 14: dct:publisher was the placeholder 'N.N.' and the clause literals carried a padding space.

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.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The content review of 2026-09-15 added 2 clause texts, 1 permission and 2 prohibitions, removed 1 prohibition and recorded the review state. Later changes brought it in line with its family and its text in the verification of 2026-09-15, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    14 changes

    • added dalicc:LiabilityLimitation "UNLESS REQUIRED BY LAW, NO COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTOR WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THE PACKAGE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE."

      Review finding Clause 14 was not recorded. Added, split into the warranty and the liability field.

    • added dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer "THE PACKAGE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AND CONTRIBUTORS \"AS IS\" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES. THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY YOUR LOCAL LAW."

      Review finding Clause 14 was not recorded. Added, split into the warranty and the liability field.

    • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added permission cc:CommercialUse

      Review finding Clause 1 states: "You are permitted to use the Standard Version and create and use Modified Versions for any purpose without restriction", and clause 2 allows distribution "either gratis or for a Distributor Fee". The record prohibited cc:CommercialUse. Removed it, added the permission, and added the prohibition the text actually states, clause 7: "provided that you do not charge a licensing fee for the Package".

    • removed prohibition cc:CommercialUse

      Review finding Clause 1 states: "You are permitted to use the Standard Version and create and use Modified Versions for any purpose without restriction", and clause 2 allows distribution "either gratis or for a Distributor Fee". The record prohibited cc:CommercialUse. Removed it, added the permission, and added the prohibition the text actually states, clause 7: "provided that you do not charge a licensing fee for the Package".

    • added prohibition dalicc:chargeLicenseFee

      Review finding Clause 1 states: "You are permitted to use the Standard Version and create and use Modified Versions for any purpose without restriction", and clause 2 allows distribution "either gratis or for a Distributor Fee". The record prohibited cc:CommercialUse. Removed it, added the permission, and added the prohibition the text actually states, clause 7: "provided that you do not charge a licensing fee for the Package".

    • added prohibition dalicc:promote

      Review finding Clause 12 states: "This license does not grant you the right to use any trademark, service mark, tradename, or logo of the Copyright Holder." Added the dalicc:promote prohibition.

    • removed dct:publisher "N.N."

      Manual edit Library convention 14: dct:publisher was the placeholder 'N.N.' and the clause literals carried a padding space.

    • changed permission cc:CommercialUse

      was permission cc:CommercialUse

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You are permitted to use the Standard Version and create and use Modified Versions for any purpose without restriction, provided that you do not Distribute the Modified Version."

    • 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 Its duty dalicc:rename quotes "In addition, the Modified Version must bear a name that is different from the name of the Standard Version."

    • 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 Its duty dalicc:rename quotes "In addition, the Modified Version must bear a name that is different from the name of the Standard Version."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "This license does not grant you the right to use any trademark, service mark, tradename, or logo of the Copyright Holder."

    • 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.

  2. Version 1

    The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.