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Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> wrote: > They were shipping something that they marketed as Perl, which behaved > differently than Perl, had been integrated into other projects, and for > which Larry Wall had little or no input. Controling this sort of behavior with a copyright license is very difficult, as has been discussed here. I have tried to do my best in the Artistic-2.0 to mitigate this problem as much as it can be mitigated via copyright law, but we'll never have a perfect solution. The better solution is to have a trademark on the word "Perl", in Larry's name, and have the trademark license require that if they call it "Perl", it really is the canonical Perl implementation. (I believe I wrote an RFC that proposed this; it's presumably currently under Larry's advisement). -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhnThread Previous | Thread Next