>>On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:57:04PM +1300, Arron Hart wrote: >>> >>>Can anyone help me - I'm so confussed. Whe I was a student I wrote a >>>program that just works great. A company I now deal with wants to buy it >>>(it took me about a year to get it right) but I can't figure out if I'm >>>allowed to sell it since it's in perl.
And Jonathan Stowe wrote: > We seem to have been getting a few of these recently - might it not be an > idea to start a mailing list dedicated to the discussion of licensing > issues (or maybe one already exists and I have overlooked it ) ? Seems to me that this it's almost the definition of a FAQ? A section section on licensing / commercial use issues could include: - can I sell programs I have written in Perl? - what about CPAN modules? - what about binaries? with/without source? - can I sell products that include Perl-the-language? - ... If this seems like a good idea, and if no-one else volunteers, I'd willing to collate questions and answers and submit to the FAQ maintainer - ? \a -- ===( Andrew Simmons PGP key: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu ===( Security, network and sys admin, Perl programming ===( http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/doc/cv.txt
