Garrick Staples wrote : > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:18:54PM -0400, Matthew Miller alleged: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:39:31AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > JPO> The Mail::Sender module has the following license: "This program > > > JPO> is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under > > > JPO> the same terms as Perl itself. There is only one aditional > > > JPO> condition, you may NOT use this module for SPAMing! NEVER! (see > > > JPO> http://spam.abuse.net/ for definition)" > > > Nice and contradictory; perl is GPL (and Artistic, of course) and the > > > GPL prevents adding restrictions. The module shouldn't have been > > > included. > > > > Nothing prevents you from licensing your code as "GPL + additional > > restrictions". You just can't add additional restrictions to code that was > > licensed _to you_ under the GPL. And of course, any such additional > > restrictions make the result not GPL-compatible. > > Not that I disagree with you, but that limit on usage, even for > spamming, still violates the FSF free software definition. > > "The freedom to run the program, for any purpose" > > "any kind of person or organization to use it on any kind of computer > system, for any kind of overall job" Yeah, problematic situation. The worst part is : Do you really think spammers would even care? Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5.89 (Rawhide) - Linux kernel 2.6.16-1.2141_FC6 Load : 0.25 0.70 0.97
