David Kaufman writes: > Hi Ashley! > > Ashley Pond V wrote: > > > Dave Rolsky wrote: > > > > > I don't know the exact rules of CPAN regarding non-free licenses, > > > so I'm not sure if this should be pulled. > > > > > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlBuildSystem/licence.txt > > > > If there are any law/license experts in the crowd, I'd love to see a > > formal/named/solid version of this sort of license. It's just about > > exactly what I've always wanted to put on all my own code. > > I agree completely and think this license is right on the mark. We > should all be using this -- it should be required for CPAN modules! > > So I've cleaned it up a bit, ... <Snip>
Thanks for putting the effort into that; it's much appreciated. > ... groups which kill ... people but who do so using just their bare > hands... and/or tools not normally considered to be "arms" -- > screwdrivers, hammers and four-wheel-drive SUV's come to mind -- are > entirely exempt from all these Real Serious field-of-use > restrictions... > > You "ethnic cleansers" in Darfur that lack funds to buy > commercial-grade automatic weapons... you guys doing the Real, Hard > Work, on the ground, using just your elbow-grease and whatever > implements you happen to find handy... when you come home from a hard > day's work, you go right ahead and use PerlBuildSystem to Build all > your Perl Systems with this contributor's blessing. You're not > "armed", so what the heck? ... No restrictions for you today! Join > the mailing list, unarmed genocidal maniacs! We offer cheerful free > tech support! The only evil-doers I really care to condemn with my > code can be described fully and without reservation using just two > words: "armed groups" Tee-hee. > And all you lone serial killers out there? Not being members of an > armed group, you too are eligible to benefit fully from every line of > my labors in creating this startlingly popular code. ... As long as > you rapists, mall-walking mass-murderers, high-school terrorists and > workplace hostage-takers act alone (and not in pairs!) you may, if > you act now, and for an unlimited time even use all the best, most > sophisticated armor-piercing automatic weaponry that money can buy, > because you're not a group! And therefore I, and PerlBuildSystem, > arbitrarily withhold our world-saving protective influence from your > victims. Nice catch -- I hadn't thought of that one! > How's that for a great way to turn my software development efforts > into a personal statement that can help me kid myself into thinking I > didn't do absolutely *nothing* to make the world a better place > today? ... What, do I think that you kill people for a living but > yet, for some odd reason, obey software licenses? I'm amazingly impressed that you found all the time to put into this. Thank you. Smylers
