At 09:54 AM 11/2/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: >Larry, you're the copyright holder on Perl 5. Can you declare that Perl >6 can copy whatever is needed out of Perl 5 without worrying about >licensing, or something to that effect?
I'm not sure he's in a position to do that even with the core code, but he's definitely not for things like Time::HiRes which is just a module bundled up with the distribution. I'm not 100% sure (IANAL, and I don't play on on TV), but I don't think submitting code to a project inherently transfers ownership of that code. Makes it available under the license of that project, yes, but I wouldn't count on anything past that unless there are explicit disclaimers and suchlike things. (And probably not even then--I'm not sure anything short of a piece of paper with "I transfer copyright of this code to you" and a signature will be truly sufficient) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk