Re: Why modifing the Artistic license is a good idea (was Re: licensing issues)

hackers at companies to ever have to say: "I wanted to use and ship Perl, but the company lawyers weren't comfortable with perl's license, so I didn't." I think the proposed AL-2.0 will have better success in this regard than the current AL. -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/b

Re: Making sure Perl means Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

not be by personality inclined to seek legal redress even if it were clearly within his rights to do so. Well, I don't think there's much point in inferring what Larry will do. An RFC concerning the trademark/service mark is under his advisement---we'll just have to see what he says. -- Bradley M. Kuhn

Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: licensing issues)

"Bradley M. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FSF surely wants Perl to be under a GPL compatible license (and, (GPL|SOMETHING) is always GPL-compatible, by default). I don't think the FSF has ever expressed a desire that Perl be GPL-only. In fact, the FSF has a policy of e

Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: licensing issues)

, but if people are unclear about why the RFCs were written as they were, then it's worth discussing it. -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Making sure Perl means Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

trademark license require that if they call it "Perl", it really is the canonical Perl implementation. (I believe I wrote an RFC that proposed this; it's presumably currently under Larry's advisement). -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Re: licensing issues

community to get what it wants. The question was: "Did the old Artistic license do what we wanted?" I argued "no" in my RFCs. Some folks argued "yes". We'll see what Larry decides. -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Re: licensing issues

in was (Artistic-2.0|GPL). -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Re: licensing issues

these lawyers? Every lawyer I have ever met things it is legally sound, including those lawyers who are trying to find ways to violate it! -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

licensing issues (was Re: standard representations)

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: I personally think that the relying on LGPL'ed code is completely reasonable. Some will disagree, so we need to come to a consensus on this as a community. Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What are the consequences for those who

Re: RFC 354 (v1) A Trademark on Perl Should be Acquired in Larry Wall's Name

, to Yet Another Society? (http://yetanother.org/) It's an independent society set up by Kevin Lenzo and some Perl luminaries to promote and protect Perl. That's a good idea. I wish you'd have mentioned it while the RFC could still be changed. :) -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn

Re: RFC idea

the best it can to reach this goal. I have seen few comments on it, though. Ben, how do you feel about it? Chris? -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Deadline for all RFCs? If so, why?

seems like that group will just get started when the language freezes, so there doesn't seem any reason to freeze internals-RFCs by the deadline, either. So, it'd probably be good if we changed some of the deadlines on the various working groups to reflect reality. Comments? -- Bradley M. Kuh

Re: RFC 211 (v1) The Artistic License Must Be Changed

o providing it on RTX11 8-inch floppies. Have you taken a look at the RFC I posted after that? It redefines "Reasonable Copying Fee" a bit better, I think. -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Re: Lawyers and licenses

Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: Bradley M . Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Think of it as writing a Last Will and Testament---you can do it on your own in a pinch, but it's always better to write a draft and then have a lawyer help you rewrite it so it's more legally sound, because it is more

Re: A new AL proposal

no remaining objections from copyright holders) relicense Perl really fly? I am not sure I understand the question; perhaps I failed to read some of the relevant discussion. Could you take a minute and point me to your proposal in the archives? -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Re: subsets of licenses and copyright holders (was Re: I think the AL needs a rewrite)

out, but I may have missed it. It sounds like an important proposal, and probably deserves its own RFC, as these issues are seperate from actual license changes. -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Re: A new AL proposal

e addition of part e in section 5, I believe this is a free software license, incompatible with the GPL. It's probably an open source license too. We'd need to run it by a lawyer to confirm that, though. -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn PGP signature

Re: Lawyers and licenses

Adams, Johnnie W wrote: Well, yesterday, after Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: "I have been talking with Eben Moglen, a prominent law professor at Columbia University, and he is willing to help us in developing some proposed new versions of the Artistic License."