At 16:32 -0700 2000.09.10, Russ Allbery wrote:
>In more of an attempt to be constructive, what if we identify the key
>aspects to the AL that people like and then, for Perl 6, find legal
>counsel to review and help draft a precise legal license with those key
>features?
I think that's a good idea, even if only as an intellectual exercise
(though ideally it could prove to be more than that).
>Surely there must be someone in the Perl community with either
>intellectual property law experience or a willingness to chip in to a fund
>to hire an intellectual property lawyer? The aspect of preserving the
>name of the package is fairly unique to the AL;
Yes, and it is its most important unique feature, to me.
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