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The Artistic License is a software license used for certain free software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation.
While most in the free software community recognise it as a free software license (as do most proponents of the alternative term open source software), it is often heavily criticised for being ambiguous, self-contradictory, and thus virtually impossible to interpret.
The text of the license is available at [1]\n
