Re: undefined behaviour for sub-transactions?

On 11/15/05, Tyler MacDonald <tyler@xxxxxx> wrote:

> But it's licensed under the GPL, so if I wrote my package using it,
> I would be encumbered by the GPL by proxy. :-/

You're most definitely using a real lot of modules, which are have
perl's dual license, one of them being the GPL.

Besides, open source authors typically tend to be open to questions
like "would it be possible to release the module under Perl's default
license instead"? Just try.

Jochen

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