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

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