in reply to Licensing of Perl Modules

I read the

Copyright: Copyright (c) Year Your Name Here. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
as
If the license conditions were good enough for Perl they are good enough for me.

I might spend a lot of time trying to read (and understand) the legal mumble, but is it really worth the effort? Maybe we should change the text to something like "... the same terms as Perl version X.X or higher"

Keep in mind that specifying that the module uses the same licence(s) as Perl means that its users do not have to wonder whether they can use it. If they can use Perl, they can use the module. Fullstop. Cool.

Jenda

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Re: Re: Licensing of Perl Modules
by dondelelcaro (Monk) on Feb 05, 2003 at 16:59 UTC
    "... the same terms as Perl version X.X or higher"

    That's actually a really good idea, especially with the addition of a simple "or higher at your option". The main source of the confusion was trying to figure out if authors meant follow perl's terms, perl's terms at the moment I write this, follow perl's terms at the moment I write this or any later terms at your option.

    As far as the licensing/wondering issue, that's precisely what I was concerned about, the fact the legality of using the module was less clear than it probably should have been.
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