Re: licensing issues

2001-01-07 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:27:21PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Could you explain why do you think going more GPL would be a good thing > for Perl? I do not think that Bradley is suggesting that Perl would "go more GPL", because that would be indefensibly insane. Bradley is proposing that

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-07 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Could you explain why do you think going more GPL would be a good thing for Perl? What things it would change compared with the current scheme? What problems it would solve? Do you not think it would create new ones? -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-07 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People who are going to steal the source will do so regardless of the > license on the source, and the people who are going to respect the license > will do so regardless of which it is. The license has to be sound, clear, and defendable legally---that m

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Nandor
At 15:32 -0500 2001.01.05, Dan Sugalski wrote: >Honestly, the license we choose will only restrict those people who will >respect it, either for moral or legal reasons. That's one reason to choose >a license that places the fewest restrictions on those people, and the GPL >is not that license. Tr