Re: Petition for Relicensing http://learn.perl.org/ and other Perl Sites Under a Less Restrictive Licence

[email protected] (brian d foy) Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:05:32 +0400
Newsgroups perl.advocacy
Message-ID <020120130605324168%[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Shlomi Fish
<[email protected]> wrote:


> I am hereby asking you to consider relicensing the content of
> http://learn.perl.org/ and other perl.org sites, which is currently under
> the restrictive Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NonDerivatives
> licence ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ ) under a less
> restrictive licence, to allow for maximum reuse, redistribution and building
> upon, which in turn will help promote the Perl 5 and Perl 6 programming
> language and ecosystem. 


I've never heard anyone complain that they stopped advocating Perl
because of a license issue.

I'd rather see people make new content to add to the old content. For
any content that I've generated, I want the licenses to stay the same.