At 06:28 AM 9/22/00 -0400, Ben Tilly wrote:
> THE ARTISTIC LICENSE
> VERSION 2, SEPTEMBER 2000
Given how this looks, I'm tempted to put forth the alternative license:
"The contents of this archive, except for packages in the ext/ directory
explicitly marked otherwise, are placed into the public domain."
But I can see how that might not fly... :)
There is one clause I have some issues with, and that's this one:
> 1.4) Intermediate states of the programs and libraries in this
> Package during operation shall fall under the copyrights of
> this License if that is possible after reviewing all
> applicable licenses, agreements, and laws. In particular
> binary images produced using "undump", snapshoting internal
> byte code, or other methods of taking a snapshot of the state
> during operation are likely to be derivative works to which
> this License applies.
The "likely" bit is going to give lawyers fits, but that's a minor problem.
If we're going to claim this, we need to draw an explicit line between the
insides and the outsides of the program. There's likely to be very little
difference between the internal and external states in a bunch of places.
We really can't claim ownership or license coverage for the bytecode
emitted by the bytecode compiler.
This also has a number of interesting implications for perl, since the
internals are moving to a more modular architecture. This clause, for
example, would mean that if someone wrote a module that took the output
from the optimizer and spat out Java bytecode without having the optimizer
output frozen to disk we would own the output. I don't think we really mean
that, nor do I think we really want to draw a stark line between output
produced by code provided with the main distribution and output provided by
code linked in after the fact.
Are we *sure* we don't want to throw the whole ball 'o wax into the public
domain? :-)
Dan
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