Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.