Re: Perl 5 License =?= {Artistic-1 GPL-1}

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> The perl license allows any version of the GPL, so it should just be
> 'GPL' not 'GPL-1'
> 
> I've been listing perl ports as {Artistic GPL}, and think it's better
> to do that than add a new license to the list of acceptable licenses
> and try to work out its conflicts.

Alrighty, that's sensible--I'll follow suit.

> We haven't really been distinguishing the different versions of the
> Artistic license. We probably should be more careful about that,
> although in practice the difference isn't actually going to matter to
> us for ports that are dual-licensed with the GPL.

Yea, there are lots of broken licenses in portfiles right now (e.g. "Apache 2.0")

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