On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:18:25 -0400
"Becky McKane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings Tim,
>
> We are doing some development work for a product where we are pre-compiling
> (platform-specific: Sol 8, W2K, AIX) the dbi and dbd open source perl
> modules you authored against the Oracle libraries, as a matter of
> convenience to our customers. We need to ship them separately on our CD.
> We will not install them with our ISMP installer, instead we would write a
> separate install script, again for customer convenience, to install these
> two perl modules. We don't statically link to them, we use them at
> run-time instead of at install time.
>
> We plan to distribute under the Artisitic License. The license for your
> modules read as such:
>
> You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License
> or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file, with the
> exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for
> commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author.
>
> We need in writing, your approval that we may distribute these modules on
> our product CD.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Becky
<SNIP>
Am I mistaken, or is the license on the oracle module for DBI invalid?
The GPL states plainly that you may not add other restrictions, and the Artistic also
says you can to do this (distribute it on a commericial media) very plainly.
I know that the original license for DBI::Pg was like this, but Manfred changed it
later to
the standard Perl license (GPL or Artistic, your choice.). The DBI is also under the
standard
Perl license.
Any thoughts?
GB
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