Howdy, Quite interesting.
Personally, I would not touch said code, and I would argue that any code on CPAN that is not under an OSI-approved license be removed. People that stand on the shoulders of giants, yet don't allow others to stand on theirs should not benefit from the glory of CPAN. Duke On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi I found a module on CPAN > http://search.cpan.org/~goyali/google_talk_bot_v_01/ > with the following comment regarding licensing: > > "You are not allowed to modify the script unless having the written > permission of abhishek jain" > > I am just wondering if having such code on CPAN is really what we want. > It might be useful to someone but it is unclear to me if you could use > parts of it in your code without the 'written permission of abhishek jain' > or if that's considered modifying the code. > > To be on the safe side I decided to not even try the code so I won't need > to look at it which might break the license. > > > What do you think? > > Gabor > -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto jonat...@leto.net http://leto.net
