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What you can or cannot do with software can get into a very complicated legal mess.
I don't understand this question:
Now Perl is 5.24... Is that possibly means it's really free now? XD

There are complicated licensing issues. A main thing that AS wants to prohibit is re-distribution of old software versions. If you install AS Perl on a client machine, they want to force you to install from their website, not an image that might be 5 years old. So I can't just burn my C:\Perl directory onto a DVD and ship that.

I can ship an Active State generated .exe file as a standalone program. I have a AS PerlApp license. That is fine.

What you can and cannot do with different licenses of "freeware" is complicated. I am not a lawyer. I haven't built an .exe file in some years. There are AS license requirements as well as each module's limitations. This can get complicated. This can get into a) a technical aspect of whether or not I can generate said .exe file and then b) whether it is legal for me to sell that product (or even give it away free) to you

My version 5.20 profile:

<PPMPROFILE> <ACTIVEPERL VERSION="2002" PERL_VERSION="5.20.2" PPM_VERSION="4.20"/ +> <REPOSITORY NAME="ActiveState Package Repository" HREF="http://ppm4. +activestate.com/MSWin32-x86-64int/5.20/2002/package.db.gz"/> <REPOSITORY NAME="log4perl" HREF="http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/pp +m"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Archive-Zip" VERSION="1.56"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Attribute-Handlers" VERSION="0.99"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="autodie" VERSION="2.29"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="autouse" VERSION="1.11"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="B-Hooks-EndOfScope" VERSION="0.15"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="B-Keywords" VERSION="1.15"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="base" VERSION="2.23"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="bignum" VERSION="0.42"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Capture-Tiny" VERSION="0.36"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Carp" VERSION="1.38"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="CGI" VERSION="4.28"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Class-C3" VERSION="0.30"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Class-Inspector" VERSION="1.28"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Class-Load" VERSION="0.23"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Class-Method-Modifiers" VERSION="2.12"/> <SOFTPKG NAME="Class-Singleton" 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If your user installs Active State from the AS website and then "runs" this profile file, that is fine because your user is just re-creating what I did for "free" from the original sources. There is a legal difference between a) I give you my copy of the above software rather than b) you making your own copy direct from the "source". Most modules don't have any source code copy re-distribution limits at all, but Active State software does.


In reply to Re^3: Is ActivePerl repositories go free again? by Marshall
in thread Is ActivePerl repositories go free again? by exilepanda

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