Re: Perl Framework Licensing, was: The P5EE dream is alive, was: ping...

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Stephen Adkins wrote:

> The GPL affects code that is "linked" to it and then redistributed.
> The issue of "linking" is a gray area.  I believe Larry Wall has
> expressed that the scripting nature of the perl language means that
> it is not a linked language, and the GPL on one module does not
> therefore transfer to applications that use it.

I've asked the FSF about just this, and their opinion is that the way in 
which a library is loaded (linked at compile time or loaded at runtime) is 
not relevant.

So a GPL-only Perl module would make any app that uses it GPL.

But note that the standard Perl license is not GPL-only, it is 
GPL|Artistic.


-dave

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