On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:30:56PM +0000, Miod Vallat 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. > > I disagree. He does not grant permission to modify, and he does not > grant permission to redistribute. That's not free enough.
Sorry, I should have put a huge smiley at the end of my comment. What I meant was what Steve Andre said, that this "bad things will happen to you" is of course not legally binding, but yeah, that licence lacks a lot to be a free licence.
