Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi I found a module on CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~goyali/google_talk_bot_v_01/ with the following comment regarding licensing: "You are not allowed to modify the script unless having the written permission of abhishek jain" I am just wondering if having such code on CPAN is really what we want.

Re: Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Howdy, Quite interesting. Personally, I would not touch said code, and I would argue that any code on CPAN that is not under an OSI-approved license be removed. People that stand on the shoulders of giants, yet don't allow others to stand on theirs should not benefit from the glory of CPAN. Duk

Re: Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread David Nicol
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi I found a module on CPAN > http://search.cpan.org/~goyali/google_talk_bot_v_01/ > with the following comment regarding licensing: > > "You are not allowed to modify the script unless having the written > permission of abhishek jain" > > Wh

Re: Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread Bill Ward
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:53 AM, David Nicol wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > >> Hi I found a module on CPAN >> http://search.cpan.org/~goyali/google_talk_bot_v_01/ >> with the following comment regarding licensing: >> >> "You are not allowed to modify the sc

Re: Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le lundi 14 mars 2011 16:22:22, Gabor Szabo a écrit : > To be on the safe side I decided to not even try the code so I won't need > to look at it which might break the license. > > What do you think? Well, if you look at the source code, you see that abhishek did reuse code from Nicholas Perez [

Re: Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-03-14 04:42 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: Le lundi 14 mars 2011 16:22:22, Gabor Szabo a écrit : To be on the safe side I decided to not even try the code so I won't need to look at it which might break the license. What do you think? Well, if you look at the source code, you see that abhi

Re: Interesting licensing requires written permission of the author to modify it

2011-03-14 Thread David Nicol
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > I think that copyright still applies for copying the original. You don't > have to make a derived work of an MP3 file for it to be an illegal copy for > example. But it does seem like posting it on CPAN would give de facto > permission to cop