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Re: perl modules' default licence



Jakob Bohm <jbj@image.dk>:

>    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>    modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  Either Perl
>    version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version you may
>    have available.

The GPL refers to the GPL "as published by the Free Software
Foundation", but you're not saying here what counts as a version of
Perl. For example, if someone creates a public-domain implementation
of some extended subset of Perl, is that sufficient to make the
modules public-domain?



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