Re: licensing issues

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
with schedules very well. I think you did quite a good job; I expect the issue to come back up again when Larry's had a chance to look over the proposals and we'll have a few more chances to clarify and talk it through. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

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

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ly don't want to get into. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: The Do what you want license and enforceability (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
why Larry never bothered before with making the AL more lawyer-proof; since he intended it to be used in conjuction with the GPL, it didn't need to be, since the GPL was always there as a well-understood legal license if someone needed one for some reason. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
o internal structural changes, is even more complicated than that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

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

2001-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
erlLicense -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: I think the AL needs a rewrite

2000-09-12 Thread Russ Allbery
with implicit agreements are frightening. If you're arguing an implicit agreement, that means you have to convince a court that you can read minds and know what the contributor was thinking when they submitted their modifications. Not the position you want to be in. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: An attempt to be constructive

2000-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
no sense to me. Would you say this about the deed to your house? One of the primary jobs of a lawyer is, given a specification from a client on what they want to say, drafting the legal language that accurately says that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org