Re: licensing issues

Last year at the Open Source Expo in NY, I was really amused to see RMS and Eric Raymond agree for the first time in history where Chinese 
Linux companies were pirating the OS.

But how can you pirate free s/w ???   Makes no sense to the lay reader; in the end it will be average people who support perl and pay us to 
implement it.  Perl is big, big, big, but its total volume can never be measured because we still live somewhat underground, at least I do.

That should change soon because the Perl6 organizational structure is showing signs of maturity.  I for one am committed to seeing every design 
feature supported flawlessly, ( though I am not yet too sure how I am going to do that, especially since M SCHWERN has vaporized )

So I am going to make the following bold proposal:

The problem isn't with the artistic license; it is with the GNU license.  So let's fix the GPL.

Like, who do we know in Boston who is tough as nails (and doesn't pay for her own drinks)? 

My whole point is to try to prevent a schism of the free s/w community to make sure the world gets the best benefit from perl6.  This would 
include parallel languages such as Ruby.