Hi all,
On 07/17/2014 05:39 PM, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
On 17/07/2014 16:12, Peter Karman wrote:
https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal
Was looking recently at the Storable-based LucyX::Remote stuff and it
occurs to
me this might be a substitute serialization format.
The source code doesn't come with a license but according to this blog
entry and Makefile.PL, it seems that the authors intended to release
under the Perl license (Artistic and GPL):
http://blog.booking.com/sereal-a-binary-data-serialization-format.html
This would make it unusable for us.
You could just ask the developers nicely if they'd re-release it under
the Apache license, or something explicitly compatible with it.
Licensing under "the same terms as Perl itself" is pretty much the
default in the Perl community, in particular if the authors don't care
much about the license.
(But I do have to wonder, why is it OK to use perl, but it wouldn't be
OK to use a perl library under the same license? That does seem a tad
odd to me).
Cheers,
Moritz
