I also think you are grossly overreacting to the threat you perceive

No I am not. I am drawing the logical conclusions from your statements in this thread.

And I strongly suggest that you re-read, this, and this, and especially this, and then see if you are still able to make the claim that "I am concerned with software staying free,"?

Because you started this subthread by bandying the words "copyright", "sneaking", "illegal", "[im]moral" and the phrase "you'd actually be putting your company into a legally extremely vulnerable position".

It is the logical conclusion from the things that you had to say in those posts that leads to my conclusions.

As long as authors of "free software licenced modules", hold and state the opinions you expressed in those posts, their (*your*) actions call the whole basis of those licence agreements into question. All I did was draw your attention to them, and draw the logical inferences from them.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

In reply to Re^16: Why non-core CPAN modules can't be used in large corporate environments. by BrowserUk
in thread Why non-core CPAN modules can't be used in large corporate environments. by Moron

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