RE: Commercial use of mod_perl / modules

2002-06-28 Thread Peter Werner
ask a lawyer. if you get taken to court "but some guy on some mailing list said it was ok" is not a great defence. all: can we please not turn this thread into a million and one personal interpretations of the situation. unless you are qualified to give a legal advice, you are just creating list

Commercial use of mod_perl / modules

2002-06-28 Thread Kirk Bowe
I've been asked an interesting (though apologies if this is a heated or irelevant topic) question: what's the legality of using mod_perl (and indeed Apache), and the available modules, in a non-GPL commercial application for which there is a charge? I can't think of any modules off hand that ar

Getting component arguments from a %def subcomponent

2002-06-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Obviously you can pass the component args into the subcomponent when you invoke it. That's my workaround. I guess I could copy the component args into component-wide variables in %init (declaring the variables in %once). Fine, *two* workarounds. Am I missing some way I can just reference the c

Access to form parameters (POST)

2002-06-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
I know, of course, how to use the <%args> section to get access to specific parameters passed to a component, and how to use default values to make them optional. Is there a reasonable way to get access to a list, array, hash, whatever, of the parameters passed and their values? I'd like to not

Re: Image manipulation recommendation?

2002-06-28 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Ryan Thompson wrote: > I'm working on a mod_perl web project in which it would be *really* > quite handy if I could dynamically rasterize text over existing images. Apache::ImageMagick ? http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-ImageMagick -- s'' Mark Fowler

Re: Image manipulation recommendation?

2002-06-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe GD.pm? --- Ryan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I hope this isn't too far off topic. I'm working on > a mod_perl web > project in which it would be *really* quite handy if > I could > dynamically rasterize text over existing images. > > What I would ideally like is a