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2026

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Artistic License 2.0

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

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

  • Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.

License-wide duties

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

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
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
N.N.
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.

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.