Re: licensing issues

[email protected] (Chris Nandor) Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:52:08 -0500
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals,perl.perl6.licenses
Message-ID <p05010401b67e78bf7613@[10.0.1.177]>
At 15:32 -0500 2001.01.05, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>Honestly, the license we choose will only restrict those people who will
>respect it, either for moral or legal reasons. That's one reason to choose
>a license that places the fewest restrictions on those people, and the GPL
>is not that license.

True, unless we stick to the same licensing scheme we have today for perl,
which, like it or not, has served Perl very, very well.

But yes, I see no way to put perl solely under the GPL.  That's just about
the worst thing we could do, aside from making perl non-"free."

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