Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:58:11PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     We would like to have some advice from you about a license issue.  In
>     short, we would like to use a modified version of a Perl core module,
>     which means we need it to be GPL.
> 
> I don't understand the scenario clearly, so I don't know the answer.
> 
> Who initially wrote this module?  What license was the original
> version released with?

That I can answer: Dean Roehrich, then called Class::Template, license
Perl 5's dual Artistic/GPL (as it was contributed directly to Perl's
core as a standard module).  Later renamed to Class::Struct and
modified by Jim Miner, then Damian Conway (the damian of the CC list),
then Casey West (formerly Casey Tweten), no license changes by any of
them.

> Who wrote the modified version?  Was the modified version ever
> released?  Do you have a copy of it?  What does this modified version
> say about its licensing?

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