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Hi there, I asked before in beginners-help@perl.org and was then sent here: When I asked ActiveState for which components of ActivePerl I will need a license to distribute an open source application, they answered: "Any and all of what you get by downloading ActivePerl Community Edition from us is governed by ActiveState's license. You can't take a component that you got from ActivePerl and distribute it." I think that's a violation of the Perl license, and even "Copyright.html" from the ActivePerl installation contains: "ActiveState Software Inc. has chosen to use all Open Source content in the ActivePerl Package under the terms of the Artistic License [...] All other components included in the ActivePerl Package are original works of ActiveState Software Inc., and may be used under the terms of the ActiveState Community Edition Software License Agreement." In my understanding, Copyright.html tells me that only "other components" are subject to the ActiveState Community Edition Software License. So how can they tell me that I need a license for "*Any and all* of what I get by downloading ActivePerl Community Edition"? I then sent another mail with the request for clarification, but received no further answer since one week, which I find quite unfriendly. An online search yielded the following statements from ActiveState people: http://community.activestate.com/node/7303 "redistribution of some, or all, of ActivePerl will require the consent of ActiveState" The opposite written by "anisotropic" (Tech Support @ ActiveState): https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=525692 Since they stopped speaking to me, what could I do next to clarify this? MarkThread Next