Re: no one is asking for Perl to be GPL-only (was Re: licensing issues)
[email protected] (Russ Allbery) 14 Jan 2001 19:57:48 -0800
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.licenses |
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| Organization | The Eyrie |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Ben Tilly <[email protected]> writes: > "Bradley M. Kuhn" <[email protected]> wrote: >> The FSF surely wants Perl to be under a GPL compatible license (and, >> (GPL|SOMETHING) is always GPL-compatible, by default). I don't think >> the FSF has ever expressed a desire that Perl be GPL-only. In fact, >> the FSF has a policy of encouraging everyone to always dual-licensing >> (GPL|Artistic) for Perl modules, to encourage uniformity, and avoid >> licensing confusion for those who use lots of Perl modules. > Could you point me at this policy? <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#PerlLicense> -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>