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Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL
- To: Elaine -HFB- Ashton <elaine at chaos dot wustl dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 22 Apr 2001 03:13:11 -0300
- Cc: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>, akim at epita dot fr, damian at mail dot csse dot monash dot edu dot au, automake at gnu dot org, jhi at iki dot fi, cpan at perl dot org
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On Apr 19, 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton <elaine@chaos.wustl.edu> wrote:
> I still, however, strongly recommend good legal counsel to those whom the
> nuances of the license matter greatly since each situation is unique.
For a module without explicit licensing terms, I suppose the best a
lawyer could say is that it's risky to use it. That's why it's so
important that the authors of the work clearly state the terms under
which they intend their work to be used. Then, legal counsel might
have something useful to say.
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