On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:33:44PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Jakob Bohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > > modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Either Perl > > version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version you may > > have available. > > The GPL refers to the GPL "as published by the Free Software > Foundation", but you're not saying here what counts as a version of > Perl. For example, if someone creates a public-domain implementation > of some extended subset of Perl, is that sufficient to make the > modules public-domain? >
Oops, that should be there too, the trouble is to formally denote the proper organization, given that: The organization surrounding Standard Perl has changed in the past, and may change again. Perl 5 is copyright Larry Wall, Perl 6 is in development and copyright The Perl Foundation. Larry Wall is a human being and will probably die before the copyright on new modules expire. The Perl Foundation is a unit of YAS, not a separate entity. Demanding that the Perl version in question be derived from Standard Perl would appear a good choice, except that perl6 will apparently be a ground-up rewrite, at may not call its release "Standard Perl". -- This message is hastily written, please ignore any unpleasant wordings, do not consider it a binding commitment, even if its phrasing may indicate so. Its contents may be deliberately or accidentally untrue. Trademarks and other things belong to their owners, if any.
