Legal bug: cpanminus-artistic.html cannot be distributed commercially

[nielsbuus]

Chef Server Version

Chef Infra Server 15.10.33 - chef-server-core_15.10.33-1_amd64.deb

Platform Details

Ubuntu 22.04 - self-hosted ESXi.

Configuration

Standalone

Scenario

I'm not sure I am using the right issue template, but this seems to be the least wrong one, although the "bug" is of a legal nature, not technical.

I got a request from a guy in the license department of my customer, who is doing a thorough license compliance review of all their open source software. And they came across the Chef Server and peeked into /opt/opscode/LICENSES, where they discovered a file called cpanminus-artistic.html. Now the file describes a license that the compliance guy approves, but the file itself seems to originate from here: https://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html

And if you scroll to the bottom of the file, it's marked with a content license and a link to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/

Compliance guy tells me that this is problematic, because you cannot distribute the artistic.html file commercially due to that little icon in the bottom left, probably based on a site-wide perl.org HTML template.

So the question is ... can the Infra server be packaged with a pure txt version of that artistic license, so the copyright notice from perl.org is not included. And if so - where to make that change?

I was looking into the source code for chef-server and I got to this line:

https://github.com/chef/chef-server/blob/main/omnibus/config/software/perl_pg_driver.rb#L24

But I don't have familiarity with omnibus internals or perl, so I'm not sure exactly which change to make here. Can you shed some light on this? Is there something I can do? If my customer's compliance guy is right, then I guess Progress is also violating the terms of that HTML template, by including it in the distribution of Chef Infra.

Steps to Reproduce

N/A

Expected Result

No offending HTML license file in LICENSES/cpanminus-artistic.html

Actual Result

There is an offending HTML license file in LICENSES/cpanminus-artistic.html