Hi,

I was just reading the POD of the Oracle DBD and was suprised to see the following text in the copyright section:

The DBD::Oracle module is Copyright (c) 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999 Tim Bunce. England. The DBD::Oracle module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself with the exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author unless the CD-ROM is primarily a copy of the majority of the CPAN archive.

Does anyone know the reasoning behind the additional clause over and above the Perl license? Does Mr Bunce give permission for this or does he withhold these rights?

A.M.

In reply to Copyright notice on DBDs by Anonymous Monk

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