Re: Making sure Perl means Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Bradley M. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPL is not a contract, it's a copyright license, just like both the proposed AL-2.0 and the original AL. MY understanding after having talked to a number of licensing experts about it in other places is that

Re: Making sure Perl means Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-16 Thread Ben Tilly
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Bradley M. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] MY understanding after having talked to a number of licensing experts about it in other places is that the GPL is both a copyright license and a contract. For

Re: Making sure Perl means Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-15 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still think a copyright that offers a contract (ie the same structure as the GPL) can do it. The GPL is not a contract, it's a copyright license, just like both the proposed AL-2.0 and the original AL. I believe (IANAL) that End User License Agreements

Re: Making sure Perl means Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-15 Thread Ben Tilly
"Bradley M. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still think a copyright that offers a contract (ie the same structure as the GPL) can do it. The GPL is not a contract, it's a copyright license, just like both the proposed AL-2.0 and the original AL. MY

Making sure Perl means Perl (was Re: licensing issues)

2001-01-14 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They were shipping something that they marketed as Perl, which behaved differently than Perl, had been integrated into other projects, and for which Larry Wall had little or no input. Controling this sort of behavior with a copyright license is very