----- Original Message ---- > From: Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To battle such ignorance and give people (especially those with some > non-negligible authority) a quick-and-dirty intro to such issues, I've set up > the following wiki page: > > http://perl.net.au/wiki/Legal_Resources_for_Hackers
Shlomi, I swear, if after this email you still disagree, I am going to wonder what they spike your Kool-Aid with over in Israel. Learn to pick your battles. Regardless of what you and Joel Spolsky state, the fact remains that Perl has survived quite nicely for many years with what most Perl programmers feel is a perfectly acceptable licensing scheme. The grant committee is highly unlikely to decide to drop everything, start researching various licenses, consider the possible implications of a new license and agree to consider using a non-Perl license in the Perl core. Even if this group of volunteers found the free time to do this, that still doesn't mean that P5P is going to accept it (Nick's made it pretty clear they won't). But let's be really generous and imagine that P5P changed their mind: that still doesn't mean that the Perl community is going to accept it. But to go even further and suppose that the Perl community decided to change their minds, now you have IT staffs the world over having to consider the implications of switching some of their core Perl code to a new license. And when you think how much time and effort was put into researching and preparing the Artistic 2 license and it got a fair amount of pushback on it, why on earth would anyone decide to switch to a different license just because you want them to? It ain't gonna happen. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please send follow up questions to the list. Web Programming with Perl -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
