Re: Integration of gettext in Perl

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Guido Flohr <address@hidden> writes:

> My statement "GPL and/or Artistic" was a shortcut for:
> 
>       This is free software.  It may be distributed either 
>       under the terms of the Artistic License or at your
>       choice the GNU General Public License.
> 
> Such a copyright statement is very common for Perl modules. The 
> primary source for free Perl modules, the CPAN is full of it.
> If there is anything wrong with it, the CPAN should be shut down
> immediately.

Of course such a copyright is perfectly fine.

But if you combine such code with GPL'd code, the result can only be
distributed under the GPL, and so the result of the combination can't
be an either/or thing.