Re: RFC 346 (v2) Perl6's License Should be (GPL|Artistic-2.0)

Bart Lateur wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2000 00:48:45 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> 
> >  Status: Frozen
> 
> and
> 
> >A copyright lawyer has I<not> looked at this license yet.  I sent it to Eben
> >Moglen, but he is very busy and hasn't been able to reply due to lack of
> >time.  I hope we find some copyright lawyers to look it over pro-bono and
> >make sure it does what we want.
> 
> I don't get it. One one hand, this note clearly marks the RFC as
> "preliminary". OTOH, the status is marked as "frozen", meaning that it
> can no longer change.
> 
> The only reason for the existence of this conflict is in the 1 October
> deadline, and that eveything not frozen will be treated as retracted.
> 
> Isn't this whole business just plain silly?

I thought so, but I wanted Larry to look for it, and I felt that it would be
problematic to leave them developing.

On the perl6-licenses RFC's, I just used "Frozen" as a codeword for "Ready
for Larry's perusal".


Anyway, the only reason it might change is if a lawyer says: "copyright law
doesn't let renders this unenforceable" or "this is doesn't fit the open
source software defintion and/or isn't a free software license".

Other than that, it shouldn't change.




-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn  -  http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn

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