Thank-you for proving my point. By downloading the "PERL COOKBOOK" examples you are FREE-ly using a propietary product. There are many FREE products that many people use because the author, publisher, or owner allows FREE use while retaining some copyright or other rights.
(I use the PERL COOKBOOK examples software and I bought the book too.) The "PERL COOKBOOK" source code (from O'Rielly) is released under a similar FREE license as rebol (as in FREE to download and use). The "PERL COOKBOOK" is actually proprietary -- owned by O'Rielly. If you really are interested in the FREE exchange of ideas, I believe you should allow a more open and inclusive definition of FREE languages. (eg. FREE to use for all projects, commercial, personal, and educational AND/OR FREE as in GNU,GPL,etc.) Your current definition of 'FREE' is too restrictive. Please change your policy to allow a broader and more open, inclusive definition of 'FREE'. Thank-you. -DV -----Original Message----- From: Guillaume Cottenceau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:48 PM To: Vos, Doug Cc: 'Travis Whitton'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Pleac-discuss] FW: Rebol code - PLEAC contributions "Vos, Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am confused now more than before. > It appears to me that NO compilers are required at all for many of the > languages in PLEAC. > > Perl, ruby, PHP do not require any compiler (as do many other > interpreted languages in PLEAC). Some perl documentation talks about compiling perl :) as in perlrun for example: After locating your program, Perl compiles the entire program to an internal form. He meant compiler/interpreter of course. > Also, the "PERL COOKBOOK" itself is FREE as in FREE beer (but > copyrighted by > O'Rielly) AFAIK it's not even free of charge - or this was a recent change. I didn't find any link to download the full contents of the perl cookbook when founding PLEAC - only the example source code. > and does not have GNU, GPL, or BSD license. > > So why not accept submissions from any FREE software, intrepreted or > compiled? Well because this has little to do. We're working on implementing code examples and we don't want that anyone force us to install proprietary software on our machines to use them. Now the Perl Cookbook is not released under a free license, well this is a different story, even if we can regret it of course. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
