I would publish under an individual's name, and have reference to their workplace.

I would think the copyright notice is the authoritative part here, not the account. The cpan account just holds the stuff. It's the docs of the distro that say who's what.- aha.. corrected- thank you ikegami, makes total sense, everyone, anyone, is authorized to distribute.

I can go copy PDF::API2 code right now, call it Agent::Orange, and distribute it- provided I state what the code is based on.. etc. This is the whole point of releasing under the perl license and using open source/gnu what have you- that code cannot be held hostage!

It's kinda like a capitalist free market science information model. If I release X and you start maintaining a version in better shape than my X, then more people will download, use it. That's what gives you 'authority' - or close enough.

In reply to Re: Organizational CPAN Accounts? by leocharre
in thread Organizational CPAN Accounts? by hobbs

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