Perl6 license to distribute?
Garrett Goebel
>
> Yes, and in fact we won't be doing copyright *transfers* at all.
> When you sign the contributor agreement, you'll be signing a
> copyright *license*, which still leaves you with the right to
> use the code elsewhere. TPF holds the "compilation copyright",
> that is the copyright on the distributed collection of code.
> The individual files say "Copyright The Perl Foundation" to
> reflect that fact. Individual copyrights on included pieces of
> code are irrelevant from perspective of the distribution (except
> that the contributors agree to give TPF the license to
> distribute them).
And what will the "license to distribute" look like?
On you're blog: (http://use.perl.org/~Allison/journal/27223?from=rss)
you mention your remaining TPF task as:
>
> finishing off the license work I started in 2004.
BTW: Thanks for all your work at TPF.
Perhaps as you finishing tying up loose licensing ends you could give us a
summary of where things are at and where they are going?
Here are some of the questions I have:
Will it be dual licensed GPL + [something else]?
Will [something else] be YAAL (Yet Another Artistic License), or a BSD or
MIT license?
If it's going to be something new, where can I go to see a copy?
Where if anywhere can I go to read highlights or archives of past and
present discussions of all things Perl and IP?
There is http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.licenses/ but I have yet
to hit upon anything resembling a decisive summary in that list, and besides
it hasn't seen almost any activity since 2001.
I remember at one point Dan wanted something as close to public domain as
practical. Which sounds a lot like either BSD or MIT licensing to me. We
tend to reuse BSD and MIT licensed code, whereas GPL'd code is considered
too encumbered. And I have to admit, there is something attractive to the
idea of a license you can read on a single screen _and_ understand...
/* $OpenBSD: ntp.c,v 1.67 2005/08/10 13:48:36 dtucker Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <hen...@openbsd.org>
* Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Guy <alexan...@andern.org>
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
* WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
* MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
* ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
* WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF MIND, USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER
* IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING
* OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
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