This whole issue is reminding of Randal's defense.
The jury was far too mystified to decide in his favor, only the judge understood the
arguement, hence no jail time ( for a 3 time felon ?? )
I think this thread started as a result of a desire to use GNU code in Perl6 where the
license would carry thru to whatever links to perl, like UWIN
posix.dll.
> Pirates tend to rape, murder
> and steal physical goods from people. Copyright infringement is not as bad
> as any of those things.
I have actually seen video of Chinese executives sitting down to a several course meal
of puppy dog, but not to digress...Oh heck, I am
redirecting this to the list, hope you dont mind.
> However, I might as well ask, what is it that you see is "broken" about the
> GPL?
I dont know, I am getting this from everybody else.
> The Artistic license needs changes because of the various
> incongruencies and inconsistencies
Ok, my whole point is: as a popular language, Perl, or Ruby or Python will be
supported by the community of humans.
Most people cant speel words like incongruous, let alone understand how any of this
relates with their everyday lives.
> Also, note that if we use a modified version of the GPL, it will likely be
> incompatible with the real GPL, which will cause big licensing problems.
In a compomise, everybody gives a little, otherwise everybody suffers; the revenue
model is to repackage the methods and sell them as
applications. Even the applications can be free where we get paid to customize them,
the latter being my model.
Perl and GNU have exactly the same goals but are seperated by split hairs. Open
source is another story. After 3 years w/ Caldera I swear they
are vastly worse than Microsoft. My experiences with VA and Redhat have their people
failing every moral litmus with the glee of Chinese
executives eating their pets.
> So, we should likely avoid modifying the GPL itself at all costs (but
> dual-licensing is of course a great idea).
Make it so, number one.
> > Like, who do we know in Boston who is tough as nails (and doesn't pay for
> > her own drinks)?
Elaine loves to kick ass.
Ok, I have the unenviable role of making perl control ssh w/in the next few days. So
far everything has failed miserably, probably Unix buffering.
I have been reading the licensing threads but I will have to get to the RFCs as soon
as I get a moment.
Also I want to attack the issue of the mascot.
Cheers, wish me luck.
