Re: ffcall GPL -> LGPL

2000-08-04 Thread Nathan Torkington
Bradley M. Kuhn writes: > I wrote http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/13.pod to propose that we create a > licensing working group. It needs someone in authority to create the > working group. Unfortunately, I have yet to find out how the process works > to create new top-level working groups. > > Of

Re: ffcall GPL -> LGPL

2000-08-04 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Tom Christiansen wrote: > >No, it's a CPAN module. > Oh, good. Someone has a licensing list going--somewhere. I wrote http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/13.pod to propose that we create a licensing working group. It needs someone in authority to create the working group. Unfortunately, I have yet

Re: ffcall GPL -> LGPL

2000-08-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>No, it's a CPAN module. Oh, good. Someone has a licensing list going--somewhere. So long as we in the core never do anything with a licence that would scare anyone away from Perl, then we're fine. People's own software [read: on CPAN] they make available on their own terms, though, of course.

Re: ffcall GPL -> LGPL

2000-08-03 Thread John Tobey
Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that mean that we're tossing out all other less onerous licensing > schemata, like Artistic or BSD, and that consequently Perl is now > guaranteed to be infested by the infinitely divisive political > problems and pernicious peculations of rms and

Re: ffcall GPL -> LGPL

2000-08-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> With Bruno Haible's permission, I'm reposting a portion of our >> correspondence. The gist of which is that he'd be willing to make ffcall >> available for use with Perl under the LGPL. >Great. I suggest that this topic be moved to the library list (

Re: ffcall GPL -> LGPL

2000-08-03 Thread John Tobey
Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With Bruno Haible's permission, I'm reposting a portion of our > correspondence. The gist of which is that he'd be willing to make ffcall > available for use with Perl under the LGPL. Great. I suggest that this topic be moved to the library list (or is