Comment 10 for bug 326308

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

After further research and discussion, here's what we propose to do.

Artistic v1 is not OSI approved, however it appears to be the most common interpretation of "Artistic License". We will keep the enum and rename this to Artistic v1 for display purposes, but we will also suppress this as a choice moving forward.

Artistic v1 probably doesn't violate our licensing policy, but we think we still want to discourage its use by hiding it in the license selection widget. If people really want to use Artistic v1, they can select "Other Open Source" and enter the v1 there.

We'll add a new enum for Artistic License 2.0 and display this in the license selection widget.

We'll email all the owners of the 66 current projects using the Artistic License and inform them of this change, encouraging them to either select v2 or Other+description.