On Jun 12, 2011, at 13:14, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: >> I ran into a module on cpan that the author says is licensed as: >> >> You can use this module freely. (Someone complained this is too vague. >> So, more precisely: do whatever you want with it, but be warned that >> terrible things will happen to you if you use it badly, like for >> sending spam, or ...?) > > Well, he's not actually forbidding any kind of use, does he ? > > So it's free. Not quite. It is the opposite. You have to explicitly disclaim parts if the copyright (redistribution, modification etc). Saying it is free doesn't make it so. >
