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From:
David Nicol
Date:
October 27, 2008 10:12
Subject:
Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN
Message ID:
934f64a20810271012l6f1d7244u8c931efc9d4ac980@mail.gmail.com
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Jonathan Rockway <jon@jrock.us> wrote:


>  If I use Term::ReadLine and it picks the
> Term::ReadLine::Gnu, is my module GPL now?

JR may neither know nor care, but I think I know and I'd like to hear
about it if I've got it wrong.

No.  You haven't distributed Term::ReadLine::Gnu.  Making you a party
to the goings-on in someone else's domain because you set up the
possibility for that someone else to do something that they did is
absurd.

-- DN

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