On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Joerg Mayer wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Richard van der Hoff wrote: >> Joerg Mayer wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:05:44AM +0200, Luis EG Ontanon wrote: >>>> YAPP's Driver is either GPL or Artistic . >>>> >>>> http://search.cpan.org/~fdesar/Parse-Yapp-1.05/lib/Parse/Yapp.pm#COPYRIGHT > > : You may use and distribute them under the terms of either the GNU > : General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl > : README file. > >>> Sure, but GPLv2 only if I see this correctly? >> >> It doesn't specify this, does it? That gives you the right to use it >> under any version of the GPL you choose. > > That would be for lawyers to decide... but I wouldn't assume so, it's > just incompletely specified. If there is no license, you may do NOTHING > with the code, not everything.
I'm pretty sure I read *somewhere* on fsf.org (though I now can't find it) that not specifying a version means "any version" in their eyes. > Also, looking at the perl license that > is mentioned in the document cited above it looks like perl uses exactly > version 2 (man perlgpl). Yes, that's true - though to be honest I'd see the "as specified in" clause as an informative, rather than normative, reference. Um; remind me how this is actually relevant here? _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
