We fully respect the conditions of the GPL and in fact have contributed greatly ourselves towards the development of applications based on perl, as well as many others. This specific requirement is security related, where a user with any intelligence, could read the source and make use of a security issue created by using sudo.
Regards Barrie ----- Original Message ----- From: Randal L. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Barrie Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:19 AM Subject: Re: Perl Compiler > >>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Barrie> Hi, does anyone know of a perl compiler? Have written some > Barrie> perl code for a product and would not like the source > Barrie> available. > > So, you're making money using a product that thousands have > contributed to, providing the source code so that hundreds of others > can adapt it and fix it as they see fit, and yet you want to squander > that by locking up *your* application? > > require 'standard/open_source_is_good-speech.pl'; > > Don't expect much help *here*. > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
