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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: rms says...
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Date: 30 Jan 91 02:12:48 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <4607@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
: This still means that I cannot afford to have any GPV-protected code on my
: computer, since I cannot risk having the source of some of my income tainted
: by association with GPV code; whether or not it's infected by the GPV, I
: can't afford the legal representation I'd need to defend my rights in my
: programming.

Oh, and I can?  Sheesh.

: This is a real shame, as there are good tools that are not
: acceptable only because of the licensing, and it's far more likely that I'll
: be able to reimplement them more easily than I could convince their authors
: (even those not directly associated with the FSF, such as Larry Wall) to
: license their code under non-utopian terms.

I'll say it again for the logic impaired.  I'm willing to give away pieces
of perl code without restriction upon request.  I'm also willing to talk
about different licensing for perl that would give you unrestricted use as
long as you don't redistribute.  Nothing more viral than a commercial license.
Shoot, I might even have to charge you $1 to make it legal.  Hmm, make
that $1000.  No, $50,000.  Yeah, that's the ticket...  :-)

Frankly, I think the GPL is a better deal, personal phobias notwithstanding.

: Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.

                                      I'm trying, believe you me.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov