Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: A lot of you write and distribute free perl code. What do you do about copyright and disclaimers in the code itself. I've had a look at a few examples and it seems you don't really bother. I think it is probably worth doing, and we will need one for

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Leon Brocard
Aaron Trevena sent the following bits through the ether: I habitually use the GPL, I have only recently realised how much of a pig it can be to keep a derived work compliant. Yup, that's why I like it so much. *This week* I'm a fan of the GPL, and how it keeps the community going. [insert

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:59:20AM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: I habitually use the GPL, I have only recently realised how much of a pig it can be to keep a derived work compliant. It will now take as long to audit the changes made to mny derived work of mwforum as it did to do some of the

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2001 10:40 Subject: Re: Disclaimer On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:58:41AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Anything I release always has the following copyright and I think that a number of module

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:28 AM From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:58:41AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: Anything I release always has the following copyright and I think that a

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: [broken quoting snipped] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License - which doesn't disallow your point 2. The GPL doesn't stop you selling the derived work. What it *does*

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: [broken quoting snipped] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License - which doesn't disallow your point 2. The GPL

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: [broken quoting snipped] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License -

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Shiels
From: "dcross - David Cross" [EMAIL PROTECTED] You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright message as it includes the Artisitc License - which doesn't disallow your point 2. I think therefore GPL will be good. People can sell my code, but as I will be giving it

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Apr 9 13:09:31 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: A lot of you write and distribute free perl code. What do you do about copyright and disclaimers in the code itself. I've had a look at a few examples and it seems you don't really bother. I think it is probably worth doing, and we will need

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Apr 10 11:27:48 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: 1. I want anything I write to be free for others to use and generally bugger about with. 2. I don't want anyone to be allowed to sell my code, or to sell anything closely derived from it. Then you cannot use GPL, Artistic, BSD, or any free

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Marty Pauley
On Tue Apr 10 13:59:15 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: No. You cannot sell the source and binaries seperately. Yes you can. If you do, you must sell the source at cost price. -- Marty PGP signature

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: The simplist would be # Name - brief description. (c) Copyright 2001 A Nother # # This is free software available under the same license as perl itself # This sofwate comes with NO WARRANTY. For more information see URL or FILE. The NO WARRANTY