Editing Artistic License (section)

=== Artistic License 2.0 ===
In response to the [[Request for Comments]] (RFC) process for improving the licensing position for [[Raku (programming language)|Raku]], Kuhn's draft was extensively rewritten by [[Roberta Cairney]] and [[Allison Randal]] for readability and legal clarity, with input from the Perl community. This resulted in the '''Artistic License 2.0''', which has been approved as both a [[free software]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense2 |title=Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |publisher=Fsf.org |access-date=2010-08-07| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100724023833/https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html| archive-date= 24 July 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> and [[Open-source license|open source]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nabble.com/License-Committee-Report-for-May-2007-tf3872801.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024228/http://www.nabble.com/License-Committee-Report-for-May-2007-tf3872801.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-09-30 |title=Old Nabble - License Committee Report for May 2007 |publisher=Nabble.com |access-date=2010-03-18}}</ref> license.

The Artistic license 2.0 is also notable for its excellent [[license compatibility]] with other FOSS licenses due to a [[Software relicensing|relicensing]] clause, a property other licenses like the GPL lack.<ref>[https://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/allison-randal-artistic-license.html Interview with Allison Randal about Artistic License 2.0] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905151027/https://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/allison-randal-artistic-license.html |date=September 5, 2015 }} on www.theperlreview.com</ref>
{{Blockquote|You may Distribute your Modified Version as Source (either gratis or for a Distributor Fee, and with or without a Compiled form of the Modified Version) [...] provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
[...]
(c) allow anyone who receives a copy of the Modified Version to make the Source form of the Modified Version available to others under

(i) the Original License or

(ii) '''a license''' that permits the licensee to freely copy, modify and redistribute the Modified Version using the same licensing terms that apply to the copy that the licensee received, and requires that the Source form of the Modified Version, and of any works derived from it, be made freely available in that license fees are prohibited but Distributor Fees are allowed.}}
It has been adopted by some of the [[Raku (programming language)|Raku implementations]], the [[Mojolicious]] framework and the [[Npm (software)|NPM]]. It is also used by the [[SNEeSe]] [[emulator]], which was formerly licensed under the Clarified Artistic License.

The [[Open Source Initiative|OSI]] recommends that all developers and projects licensing their products with the Artistic License adopt Artistic License 2.0.<ref>
{{cite web
 |url         = http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-1.0.php
 |title       = The Artistic License:Licensing
 |publisher   = Open Source Initiative
 |date        = October 31, 2006
 |access-date  = March 18, 2009
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090324061628/http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-1.0.php
 |archive-date = 24 March 2009
 |url-status     = dead
}}
</ref>