Re: licensing issues

2001-01-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:27:56AM +, David Grove wrote: However, maybe you can find out something for us. Specifically, why isn't Perl 5.6 a part of "official" Debian in this latest release, and 5.005_03 still is? simon@pembro26 ~/fonts % apt-cache show perl-5.6 Package: perl-5.6

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:27:28AM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote: At 09.19 -0500 01.14.2001, Ben Tilly wrote: That situation definitely had ActiveState violating the spirit of the Artistic License, whether or not they were violating the letter. They violated neither the spirit nor the letter.

Re: licensing issues

2001-01-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:43:36AM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote: No. It was to have Windows support built-in to the standard distribution. I see. I notice that you still haven't told me which part of clause three they actually kept. -- In this talk, I would like to speculate a little, on ...

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

2000-10-06 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 08:13:27PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: A Trademark on Perl Should be Acquired in Larry Wall's Name I thought one of the objects of the Perl 6 exercise was to make Perl bus-proof. Why don't we assign the trademark, and the code copyrights, to Yet Another Society?

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

2000-10-06 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:27:31PM -0500, David Grove wrote: I've voiced my objections and given complete and concrete evidence and examples of why this should not happen. I think that's enough. I think that's enough, too. So, you'll be shutting up now, then? -- God Save the Queen! And let

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

2000-10-06 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:52:26PM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: That's a good idea. I wish you'd have mentioned it while the RFC could still be changed. :) Shouldn't be a problem; we don't have to stop having ideas now October first is past, I hope. -- There seems no plan because it is

Re: new perl mascot

2000-09-30 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:52:40AM -0500, David Grove wrote: That's the current running hope, I'll change the RFC to match it shortly. However, since I can't realistically expect this to happen, it wouldn't make sense to do more than suggest it as a first course of action. I don't think