diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.10.1.recipe b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.10.1.recipe
index 97e832373..e42fae4d5 100644
--- a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.10.1.recipe
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.10.1.recipe
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.perl.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1993-2009 Larry Wall and others"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v1
-	Artistic (Perl)"
+	Artistic"
 SRC_URI="http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="cb7f26ea4b2b28d6644354d87a269d01cac1b635287dae64e88eeafa24b44f35"
 REVISION="6"
diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.1.recipe b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.1.recipe
index 20e42b8c0..e09f9ea8a 100644
--- a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.1.recipe
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.1.recipe
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ its perceived 'ugliness'.
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.perl.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1993-2009 Larry Wall and others"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v1
-	Artistic (Perl)"
+	Artistic"
 SRC_URI="http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.18.1.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="655e11a8ffba8853efcdce568a142c232600ed120ac24aaebb4e6efe74e85b2b"
 REVISION="1"
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ PROVIDES="
 	# vendor_perl refers to the path to packaged perl modules, which includes
 	# the full perl version, so it isn't backwards compatible to anything else.
 	vendor_perl = $portVersion
-	# It is unclear which kind of backwards compatibility libperl.so 
+	# It is unclear which kind of backwards compatibility libperl.so
 	# implements, so we assume none.
 	lib:libperl = $portVersion
 	"
diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.2.recipe b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.2.recipe
index a56051732..ae78f98d2 100644
--- a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.2.recipe
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.18.2.recipe
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ its perceived 'ugliness'.
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.perl.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1993-2009 Larry Wall and others"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v1
-	Artistic (Perl)"
+	Artistic"
 SRC_URI="http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.18.2.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="7cbed5ef11900e8f68041215eea0de5e443d53393f84c41d5c9c69c150a4982f"
 REVISION="2"
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ PROVIDES="
 	# vendor_perl refers to the path to packaged perl modules, which includes
 	# the full perl version, so it isn't backwards compatible to anything else.
 	vendor_perl = $portVersion
-	# It is unclear which kind of backwards compatibility libperl.so 
+	# It is unclear which kind of backwards compatibility libperl.so
 	# implements, so we assume none.
 	lib:libperl = $portVersion
 	"