Ovid wrote:
Being an *extremely* political creature, I'm sorely tempted to wade
into this mess, but I won't. Can we just agree to stick to the
license's suitability for the CPAN?
Cheers,
Ovid
Perhaps this is just a "me, too"...
The law of unintended consequences ("Every action has at least two
consequences - the one you intended, and at least one you didn't") is at
work here. I think it's ironic that some of the biggest organizational
contributors to open source (Red Hat, O'Reilly Media, and CPAN come to
mind) are barred from using PerlBuildSystem because they don't restrict
their distributions to keep them away from armed groups (and are thus
"suppliers").
You can hold whatever political opinions you want. Just be aware that
when you try to mix ideology with technology, the technology invariably
suffers.
But I'm guessing the author of PerlBuildSystem isn't subscribed to this
mailing list, anyways.
