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

2001-01-16 Thread Ben Tilly
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Bradley M. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > MY understanding after having talked to a number of licensing experts > > about it in other places is that the GPL is both a copyright license and > > a contr

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

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Bradley M. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The GPL is not a contract, it's a copyright license, just like both the >> proposed AL-2.0 and the original AL. > MY understanding after having talked to a number of licensing experts > about it in other plac

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

2001-01-15 Thread Ben Tilly
"Bradley M. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I still think a copyright that offers a contract (ie the > > same structure as the GPL) can do it. > >The GPL is not a contract, it's a copyright license, just like both the >proposed AL-2.0 and the original A

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

2001-01-15 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still think a copyright that offers a contract (ie the > same structure as the GPL) can do it. The GPL is not a contract, it's a copyright license, just like both the proposed AL-2.0 and the original AL. I believe (IANAL) that End User License Agreemen

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

2001-01-14 Thread Ben Tilly
"Bradley M. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > They were shipping something that they marketed as Perl, which behaved > > differently than Perl, had been integrated into other projects, and for > > which Larry Wall had little or no input. > >Controling t

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

2001-01-14 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They were shipping something that they marketed as Perl, which behaved > differently than Perl, had been integrated into other projects, and for > which Larry Wall had little or no input. Controling this sort of behavior with a copyright license is very dif