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Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 06:41:06 -0600 (MDT) |
*>Also, for the sake of eliminating doubt, I urge the maintainers of
*>CPAN to adopt a policy that each module must explicitly state its
*>license or licenses. Even if this is only applied for new and updated
*>modules, over time it would do a lot of good.
There is currently a plan for something called CPANTS, a testing service
of sorts to test for the presence or absence of certian requirements.
However, I doubt if we will be technically requiring anything but
recommending. People are free to license at will as long as they aren't
trying to sell it on CPAN.
I have a feeling we are talking about two different questions.
My suggestion was for a requirement for listing a module on CPAN:
namely, that the module should have to state explicitly what its
licenses are.
Perhaps CPAN already has such a requirement--if so, please forgive me.
I am not really an Internet user, so I cannot check.
I think that CPAN should also have a requirement for which licenses to
allow, when publishing a module. (Again, I can't check if CPAN
already has such a requirement.) But that is a different issue.
- Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/17
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Richard Stallman, 2001/04/19
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Jarkko Hietaniemi, 2001/04/19
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Richard Stallman, 2001/04/19
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Elaine -HFB- Ashton, 2001/04/20
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Richard Stallman, 2001/04/20
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/20
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Richard Stallman, 2001/04/21
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/21
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/21
- Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL, Elaine -HFB- Ashton, 2001/04/21