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

2001-01-24 Thread John van V
For example, I'd like to see CPAN.pm warn you if you are about to install a module which will, licensing-wise, force you down a GPL-only or AL-only fork when you use it in your programs. Personally I'd be thrilled to know that the module works at all, and returns useful data sometime this

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-14 Thread John van V
Ben Tilly Wrote: But as I have said before, I have no problems with 5.6.0 having been released when it was. I work in a 16 trillion dollar settlement environment. 5.5.4/5.6 has broken a lot of administrative tools. You do the math.

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-09 Thread John van V
Last year at the Open Source Expo in NY, I was really amused to see RMS and Eric Raymond agree for the first time in history where Chinese Linux companies were pirating the OS. But how can you pirate free s/w ??? Makes no sense to the lay reader; in the end it will be average people who