Hi Ovid! On Friday 07 July 2006 12:30, Ovid wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Not exactly. I suggested that if anyone is interested in working on > > Test::Run, he can file a proposal for a grant saying he'd like to work on > > it with me as a mentor. I still don't have anyone who can work on it. > > This is similar to Adam Kennedy's "Strawberry Perl" developer wanted: > > > > http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/29174 > > I oversee the grant committee but I don't speak for it so it's quite > possible that what I say is wrong, but I'm willing to bet money that if > someone requests a grant for Test::Run under its current license, it has > ZERO chance of being approved. The grant committee members aren't lawyers > and they're not going to sit around and wonder if the license is > compatible, nor are they simply going to take your word for it.
This kind of attitude was also said by another responder to this mailing list. It's sort of a "small headed" (see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/12/06.html ) "I just want to write code and am not interested in any legal details" attitude. Well, I'm not a lawyer, either, but I still have a good amount of working knowledge about software licences and how they relate to each other. It's essential for a developer to have such a knowledge and not be completely oblivious of such issues, because for better or for worse - legal, ethical and moral issues affect the way we build, distribute, use and modify software. To battle such ignorance and give people (especially those with some non-negligible authority) a quick-and-dirty intro to such issues, I've set up the following wiki page: http://perl.net.au/wiki/Legal_Resources_for_Hackers I believe anyone can add things there, even without being logged in. There are other legal issues I'd like to add links there, but it will have to wait for later on. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Of course, even with that little issue taken care of, I still can't say > that Test::Run would be approved. We'd probably need evidence that the > core Perl-QA people supported the project. We get enough grant requests in > that we generally have to trust that those in the Perl community with the > most experience in a given area know what they're talking about. Maybe > that's not the best approach, but sooner or later we have to trust > *someone's* judgment. > > Cheers, > Ovid > > -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please > send follow up questions to the list. > > Web Programming with Perl -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.
