Re: licensing issues by David Grove- January 14, 2001 Russ Allbery <rrastanford.edu> wrote: > You may have a good point here. Perhaps we want a Perl Manifesto that > lays out our base goals in plain English, separate from any licensing > scheme. At the least, it could serve as documentation for why Perlis > dual-licensed, since this keeps coming up.I think that "charter" would be more palatable than "manifesto", althoughI won&39;t lose the sentiment in semantics. I&39;ve been thinking the samething, and...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/2001/01/msg322.html Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: licensing issues) by Russ Allbery- January 14, 2001 Ben Tilly <ben_tillyhotmail.com> writes:> "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhnebb.org> wrote:>> The FSF surely wants Perl to be under a GPL compatible license (and,>> (GPLSOMETHING) is always GPL-compatible, by default). I don&39;t think>> the FSF has ever expressed a desire that Perl be GPL-only. In fact,>> the FSF has a policy of encouraging everyone to always dual-licensing>> (GPLArtistic) for Perl modules, to encourage uniformity, and...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/2001/01/msg321.html Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: licensing issues) by Russ Allbery- January 14, 2001 Chris Nandor <pudgepobox.com> writes:> I think it is unfortunate that anyone would think someone else&39;s choice> of license is unfortunate. :)While I&39;m with Linus on this (those who write the code get to choose thelicense), I think it&39;s incumbent on us, as the licensing working group, tobe aware that choices of licenses have consequences and sometimes thoseconsequences can be obscure or unintended. I&39;d like it if everyonechoosing a license did so with full knowledge of..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/2001/01/msg320.html Re: licensing issues by Russ Allbery- January 14, 2001 David Grove <petepetes-place.com> writes:> I&39;m suggesting licensing only as a necessary first step. It&39;s a document> where we put on paper (or in bits and bytes) what the nature of our> "spirit" is. Without this as a groundwork, there&39;s very little to base> further action and policy on.Given that licenses should be lawyer-proof, or at least lawyer-resistant,this may not be the best place to put down the intended spirit of one&39;scommunity. There are a lot..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/2001/01/msg319.html Re: Making sure "Perl" means "Perl" (was Re: licensing issues) by Ben Tilly- January 14, 2001 "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhnebb.org> wrote:>>Ben Tilly <ben_tillyhotmail.com> wrote:>> > They were shipping something that they marketed as Perl, which behaved> > differently than Perl, had been integrated into other projects, and for> > which Larry Wall had little or no input.>>Controling this sort of behavior with a copyright license is very >difficult,>as has been discussed here. I have tried to do my best in the Artistic-2.0>to...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/2001/01/msg318.html Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: licensing issues) by Ben Tilly- January 14, 2001 "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhnebb.org> wrote:>>Ben Tilly <ben_tillyhotmail.com> wrote:>> > Richard Stallman would LOVE it if Perl was placed under the GPL.>>I can&39;t speak for RMS, but I know that the FSF would not necessarily "love">for Perl to be GPL&39;ed.>>The FSF surely wants Perl to be under a GPL compatible license (and,>(GPLSOMETHING) is always GPL-compatible, by default). I don&39;t think the>FSF has ever expressed a...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/2001/01/msg317.html Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: licensing issues) by Nathan Torkington- January 14, 2001 Chris Nandor writes:> Seeing as how the RFC process is done, I don&39;t think there is a conclusion> to be had in this forum, at this point.And I have trouble seeing how watching you and Brad go back and forthis going to do anything other than raise my blood pressure :-) Perhapsit&39;s time for off-list email.Nathttp://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/2001/01/msg316.html |