Change of license?

ethan on 2004-01-17T10:17:20

I wonder whether there has been a change in the standard Perl license recently. I just stumbled about this:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

as created by 5.8.2's h2xs as the "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE" disclaimer. Have to investigate.

Change 20632

rafael on 2004-01-17T11:15:44

Change 20632 by jhi@kosh on 2003/08/12 08:11:08 The Debian people have expressed a wish for the boilerplate being specific about the Perl version; patch from Nick Clark.

Re:Change 20632

ethan on 2004-01-17T12:24:30
Hmmh, I see. Well, the Debian folks will probably know why they wanted this change.

Re:Change 20632

pudge on 2004-01-28T03:21:13
Probably because the Artistic License has undergone various subtle changes over the years, so they wanted it to be specific.