Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Dave Rolsky
http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlBuildSystem/licence.txt I don't know the exact rules of CPAN regarding non-free licenses, so I'm not sure if this should be pulled. Unlike the Bantown license, it probably doesn't prevent CPAN from distributing it. OTOH, if there were a mirror at a .mil

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Ashley Pond V
If there are any law/license experts in the crowd, I'd love to see a formal/named/solid version of this sort of license. It's just about exactly what I've always wanted to put on all my own code. -Ashley On Friday, Feb 16, 2007, at 10:39 US/Pacific, Dave Rolsky wrote:

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Ashley Pond V wrote: If there are any law/license experts in the crowd, I'd love to see a formal/named/solid version of this sort of license. It's just about exactly what I've always wanted to put on all my own code. What kind of idiocy is this?! There's a *lot* of

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Jonathan Rockway
Ashley Pond V wrote: If there are any law/license experts in the crowd, I'd love to see a formal/named/solid version of this sort of license. It's just about exactly what I've always wanted to put on all my own code. Yikes. I used to think like this -- ``my software is so awesome that people

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jonathan == Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan (Look at OpenBSD vs. GNU... every GNU utility has been rewritten Jonathan just because of bickering over licensing concerns. What. A. Jonathan Waste.) Not just bickering. The goal of BSD is BSD-licensing, which has more freedom

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 16 February 2007, Jonathan Rockway wrote: Ashley Pond V wrote: If there are any law/license experts in the crowd, I'd love to see a formal/named/solid version of this sort of license. It's just about exactly what I've always wanted to put on all my own code. Yikes. I used to

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com [2007-02-16 21:45]: * Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Look at OpenBSD vs. GNU... every GNU utility has been rewritten just because of bickering over licensing concerns. What. A. Waste.) Not just bickering. The goal of BSD is

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-16 22:55]: And I have strong sentiments against doing What Everyone Else Does (tm) and conformism. Ends up that in the software world, this also means you have strong sentiments in favour of being a pain in your users’ asses. Regards, -- Aristotle

Re: Another non-free license - PerlBuildSystem

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Lester
On Feb 16, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: And I have strong sentiments against doing What Everyone Else Does (tm) and conformism. Doing things others do is not conforism. Doing things others don't do is not non-conformism. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com =