I thought we already had this debate in April...

Georg stated his code was 'Public Domain' (legally, free of any licence) and so I
said my contributions were made to Daniel under the same terms as the rest of
curl (MIT-X/MPL), making it easy for Curl::easy to be included in the main curl
distro.

I or Daniel can edit the documentation for Curl::easy in CVS to make this
clearer.

If Curl::easy is going to live 'standalone', it might also make sense to
explicitly licence it under the usual perl Artistic/GPL dual licence as well, if
this is possible, otherwise it's just MIT-X/MPL.

Perhaps Domenico can tell me if these 4 are compatible :-)

Cris.

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Here's my original conclusion from April:

Thanks Georg,
        that clears it up nicely. Now your code is clearly 'public domain',
I'll contribute my changes back to Daniel and he is free to incorporate
the whole package under the curl main licence (MIT-X/MPL), keeping
things nice and simple...

Cris

Well, of course vi is the best editor...

Georg Horn wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:14:20AM +1000, Cris Bailiff wrote:
> >
> > I just downloaded your 1.1.0 version, and I noticed that your Changes note
> > that you've put Curl::easy under the GPL 'officially'. Its not clear what
> > licence applies to the previous versions, but can I ask you to re-consider
> > your licence...
> > [ license stuff snipped ... ]
>
> Well, originally i just wrote that thing because i needed it, without thinking
> about any licenses. I put it under the gpl because Domenico Andreoli (added to
> the Cc line), who builds the curl package for debian, encouraged me to do so.
> I personally think that the gpl is ok, others might think different...
>
> But i don't want to start arguing about the best license or editor
> or whatever. There has already too much bandwidth been wasted about this.
> Every little child knows that vi is the best editor and gpl the best
> license, so let's get back to coding. ;-)))
>
> In order to allow you to view my excellent code ;-)) i have built a new
> package, that is under no license at all (i originally published the thing
> on freshmeat as "public domain"). See
> http://koblenz-net.de/~horn/export/Curl-1.1.0.tgz
>
> Bye,
> Georg