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
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