On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Marcos Laufer <mar...@ipversion4.com> wrote: > > Marc Espie wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> > > > And what about the ¨do whatever you want with it¨ part? > > Isn´t that permission to do whatever you want with it, like modify it , > redistribute it, etc? > > >
Except bad things.
