Dan Sugalski: # At 12:01 PM 11/2/2001 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote: # >There's no reason to have the perl community running # >two different versions. # # There is one reason. # # Licensing. # # We don't have a solid license for perl 6 yet, but odds are it'll be # different from perl 5's license, and until we know they're # the same or # compatible, we can't necessarily lift things out of the perl 5 source # without permission of the original author and anyone who # might've patche # the code we're lifting. # # You have no idea how thrilled this makes me... :(
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? --Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configure pumpking for Perl 6 When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. --Dubya