Re: I think the AL needs a rewrite

At 8:22 -0400 2000.09.12, Ben Tilly wrote:
>>I was going to disagree, but then I just decided I don't know what this
>>means.  What I don't understand is this thing about incorporating changes
>>into the Standard Version.  Why does it matter?
>
>Because if you are going to embrace and extend, I want the
>extension distributed on terms where the maintainer of the
>standard version does not have to play catch-up if you had
>some good ideas.

On the other hand, I don't want to put any such burden on users of my
software.  If they want to extend it to do whatever the want to do, then I
don't see why I should care, as long as they don't call it perl.


>And I don't want your extension to wind
>up in due course of time under a license which leaves you
>with essentially absolute control.

If someone wants to take the source to perl and make something not called
perl and make it totally incompatible with perl and somewhat proprietary
... *shrug*.

Why don't you just use the GPL?  That's what I don't understand.

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