Well, I think I see where you're coming from. I also think you are grossly overreacting to the threat you perceive and that there are almost certainly vastly greater legal risks which you as a software architect (and by extension your customer) expose yourself constantly. And there is certainly no restriction on the purposes of a user who wants to use free software. There are a few very easily fulfilled restrictions on how he can use the software, and these are less than with any other kinds of software.

I have no problem if people take free software and make money from it. I am concerned with software staying free, and the point we were discussing is rather central to that issue, given the current legal framework and political tendencies. The fact that there are not huge amounts of past law cases which support the strength of FLOSS licenses is simply due to the fact that our industry is a very young one and acceptable practices are being established as we go along. Some establish practices by fabricating anti-competitive and illegal EULAs and some establish them by trying to find ways of giving people access to their intellectual property in a way that is as painless as possible. You makes your choices and you takes your chances.


Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan

In reply to Re^15: Why non-core CPAN modules can't be used in large corporate environments. by tirwhan
in thread Why non-core CPAN modules can't be used in large corporate environments. by Moron

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