On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > If you do find modules that are released under the GPL only, you > might consider asking the author to release the next version under > the same terms as Perl itself, which is the Perl community standard > (except of course, where the module itself links with GPL code or > BSD licensed code, etc.) > > OTOH, people who release things only under the GPL are often > ideologically motivated and may not be willing to change. In that > case, you'll simply have to deal with it.
And sometimes they're just ignorant--they don't know if there is any problem with one license or another. But since the GPL gets so much mind-share, they just slap it on their code and put it up (I've been guilty of doing so). Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936
