From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T02:42:37+09:00
Subject: Re: License question

> On 6/15/06, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have translated a Perl module that grabs info from wma files to Ruby. This
> > module's license says:
> >
> > >This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > it under the same terms as Perl itself.
> >
> > I wonder how I should or have to license my Ruby library accordingly,

I would second the notion of contacting the author to get permission
to license with the same terms as Ruby. The licenses are very close,
and I doubt this would break the spirit of the author's request -- but
it does violate the letter, so contact the author.

If you cannot contact them, just use the original author's same
licensing, I don't see any real practical differences in how it would
affect most developers. I like the GPL for some things, but I would
not release a library with only GPL licensing.

pth