Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Thu, Oct 23 2008, Bill Ward wrote: Perhaps when you upload to PAUSE without a license in META.yml it could actually replace the META.yml with one that has a license, based in input from an HTML form? Would that be too weird? I think it's technically feasible. So if the user doesn't

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Bill Ward
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Thu, Oct 23 2008, Bill Ward wrote: Perhaps when you upload to PAUSE without a license in META.yml it could actually replace the META.yml with one that has a license, based in input from an HTML form? Would

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some other thoughts... is the license specified in the META.yml legally binding in any way? If not, anyone using the module will have to look at

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-26 07:10]: I don't know and I don't care. Does anyone else? I do, because it matters. I would love to be able not to care, much as I would love to be able not to care about politics, or about money, because I find all of these topics utterly boring

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Dr.Ruud
Gabor Szabo schreef: I am trying to push forward simplifying and clarifying the licensing issues on CPAN. It would be nice to have a license pragma. use license Perl; use license AL/GPL; use license qw{ Artistic_2 (and_up) GPL_3 (and_up) }; We already have

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Dr.Ruud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-26T06:28:44] Gabor Szabo schreef: I am trying to push forward simplifying and clarifying the licensing issues on CPAN. It would be nice to have a license pragma. use license Perl; What would this do? -- rjbs

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Ricardo SIGNES # on Sunday 26 October 2008: It would be nice to have a license pragma.   use license Perl; What would this do? Skip calls to any code which didn't conform to that license ;-) --Eric -- Moving pianos is dangerous. Moving pianos are dangerous. Buffalo buffalo buffalo

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread John M. Gamble
Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Ricardo SIGNES # on Sunday 26 October 2008: It would be nice to have a license pragma. use license Perl; What would this do? Skip calls to any code which didn't conform to that license ;-) Oh good. Nothing that could possibly go wrong

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Dr.Ruud
Ricardo SIGNES schreef: Dr.Ruud: Gabor Szabo: I am trying to push forward simplifying and clarifying the licensing issues on CPAN. It would be nice to have a license pragma. use license Perl; What would this do? That's up to the creator of the license pragma, but it would most

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course not, don't be absurd. But when the user is uploading the module, the PAUSE web interface could prompt them to select the license. That fails for a couple of reasons: 1. PAUSE is not the arbiter of licences and

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then again, I, as the author, don't really know what license my distributions are distributed under. I don't know and I don't care. Does anyone else? I care only to the extent that a user needs something in

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Dr.Ruud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-26T14:39:23] That's up to the creator of the license pragma, but it would most probably be defined as standing for: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Williams
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another good point. One could put GPL in the META.yml but have a LICENSE section in the POD that says same terms as Perl itself -- which one wins? That's the very reason I want to get the license text out of the POD and into

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Bill Ward
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another good point. One could put GPL in the META.yml but have a LICENSE section in the POD that says same terms as Perl itself -- which one wins?

ithread on FreeBSD 7.1

2008-10-26 Thread imacat
Dear all, I found that ithread seems to be not working on FreeBSD 7.1. Is it so? Will ithread work on FreeBSD 7.0? Or does ithread not work on FreeBSD at all? Or is there any way to make ithread work on FreeBSD 7.x? -- imacat ^_*' [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key:

Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Dolan
On Oct 26, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Bill Ward wrote: The problem is people may add it to META.yml but not remove it from the POD. For one thing, it would be nice to be able to see what the license is when viewing the POD. Once the module is installed META.yml is no longer present, and there's