From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 28 5:22:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from venice.iwaynet.net (venice.iwaynet.net [198.30.29.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4E637B405 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 05:22:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfuhrman@iwaynet.net) Received: from localhost (IDENT:nobody@venice.iwaynet.net [198.30.29.17]) by venice.iwaynet.net (8.12.0.Beta19/8.12.0.Beta19) with ESMTP id f7SCOq4m008313 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:24:52 -0400 Received: from 204.210.226.249 ( [204.210.226.249]) as user cfuhrman@pop.iwaynet.net by webmail.iwaynet.net with HTTP; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:24:52 -0400 Message-ID: <999001492.3b8b8d94b71c3@webmail.iwaynet.net> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:24:52 -0400 From: cfuhrman@iwaynet.net To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Switching from LGPL to ??? License MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 204.210.226.249 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, Can't really think of a better forum to ask this so I thought I'd give this one a shot. I'm the author of a perl module used for printing to remote printers. Within the next month or so, I'm planning on giving it a fairly complete overhaul to make it easier to maintain. Another major change that I'm planning on undertaking is to release it under a different license. Right now, the latest version has been released under the LGPL. Due to philosophical/political issues I have with the GPL/LGPL I have decided it would be best change the license the perl module is distributed under. Interested parties as to why I decided to do this can reference the recent fiasco w/ glibc: http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-16-002-06-LT Giving credit where credit is due, a number of arguments made by Brett Glass have also influenced me in the past few months. So, this brings me to two questions: 1) Which license to distributed the module under: the Perl Artistic License or the BSD one. 2) What is the best means of changing the license? Basically strip out the LGPL and replace it? I appreciate any input into this. Cheers! - Chris Fuhrman cfuhrman@iwaynet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message