Perl modules (license: distributable)

[Paul Howarth]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> Garrick Staples wrote :
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:18:54PM -0400, Matthew Miller alleged:
>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:39:31AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>> JPO> The Mail::Sender module has the following license: "This program
>>>> JPO> is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
>>>> JPO> the same terms as Perl itself. There is only one aditional
>>>> JPO> condition, you may NOT use this module for SPAMing! NEVER! (see
>>>> JPO> http://spam.abuse.net/ for definition)"
>>>> Nice and contradictory; perl is GPL (and Artistic, of course) and the
>>>> GPL prevents adding restrictions.  The module shouldn't have been
>>>> included.
>>> Nothing prevents you from licensing your code as "GPL + additional
>>> restrictions". You just can't add additional restrictions to code that was
>>> licensed _to you_ under the GPL. And of course, any such additional
>>> restrictions make the result not GPL-compatible.
>> Not that I disagree with you, but that limit on usage, even for
>> spamming, still violates the FSF free software definition.
>>
>> "The freedom to run the program, for any purpose"
>>
>> "any kind of person or organization to use it on any kind of computer
>> system, for any kind of overall job"
> 
> Yeah, problematic situation. The worst part is : Do you really think
> spammers would even care?

No, they wouldn't. I've personally received spam with an X-Mailer 
suggesting that Mail::Sender was used.

Paul.