On 06/12/11 14:30, Miod Vallat wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote:
I ran into a module on cpan that the author says is licensed as:
You can use this module freely. (Someone complained this is too vague.
So, more precisely: do whatever you want with it, but be warned that
terrible things will happen to you if you use it badly, like for
sending spam, or ...?)
Well, he's not actually forbidding any kind of use, does he ?
So it's free.
I disagree. He does not grant permission to modify, and he does not
grant permission to redistribute. That's not free enough.
That phrase, "but be warned that terrible things will happen"
is not a legal stricture. It's a joke, which shouldn't be there,
but is not a statement that forbids anything.
Chris, you might want to ask the author to rephrase his
"license" as something more reasonable. Another example
of independent licensing.
--STeve Andre'
