Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pidl license question

[Richard van der Hoff <richardv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Richard van der Hoff wrote:
> > Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:05:44AM +0200, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> > > > YAPP's Driver is either GPL or Artistic .
> > > >
> > > > http://search.cpan.org/~fdesar/Parse-Yapp-1.05/lib/Parse/Yapp.pm#COPYRIGHT
>
> : You may use and distribute them under the terms of either the GNU
> : General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl
> : README file.
>
> > > Sure, but GPLv2 only if I see this correctly?
> >
> > It doesn't specify this, does it? That gives you the right to use it
> > under any version of the GPL you choose.
>
> That would be for lawyers to decide... but I wouldn't assume so, it's
> just incompletely specified. If there is no license, you may do NOTHING
> with the code, not everything.

I'm pretty sure I read *somewhere* on fsf.org (though I now can't find it) 
that not specifying a version means "any version" in their eyes.

> Also, looking at the perl license that
> is mentioned in the document cited above it looks like perl uses exactly
> version 2 (man perlgpl).

Yes, that's true - though to be honest I'd see the "as specified in" 
clause as an informative, rather than normative, reference.

Um; remind me how this is actually relevant here?