Allison Randal wrote: > > Yes, and in fact we won't be doing copyright *transfers* at all. > When you sign the contributor agreement, you'll be signing a > copyright *license*, which still leaves you with the right to > use the code elsewhere. TPF holds the "compilation copyright", > that is the copyright on the distributed collection of code. > The individual files say "Copyright The Perl Foundation" to > reflect that fact. Individual copyrights on included pieces of > code are irrelevant from perspective of the distribution (except > that the contributors agree to give TPF the license to > distribute them).
And what will the "license to distribute" look like? On you're blog: (http://use.perl.org/~Allison/journal/27223?from=rss) you mention your remaining TPF task as: > > finishing off the license work I started in 2004. BTW: Thanks for all your work at TPF. Perhaps as you finishing tying up loose licensing ends you could give us a summary of where things are at and where they are going? Here are some of the questions I have: Will it be dual licensed GPL + [something else]? Will [something else] be YAAL (Yet Another Artistic License), or a BSD or MIT license? If it's going to be something new, where can I go to see a copy? Where if anywhere can I go to read highlights or archives of past and present discussions of all things Perl and IP? There is http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/ but I have yet to hit upon anything resembling a decisive summary in that list, and besides it hasn't seen almost any activity since 2001. I remember at one point Dan wanted something as close to public domain as practical. Which sounds a lot like either BSD or MIT licensing to me. We tend to reuse BSD and MIT licensed code, whereas GPL'd code is considered too encumbered. And I have to admit, there is something attractive to the idea of a license you can read on a single screen _and_ understand... /* $OpenBSD: ntp.c,v 1.67 2005/08/10 13:48:36 dtucker Exp $ */ /* * Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR * ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF MIND, USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER * IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. */ -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com
