I contacted Jens back in March 2003 regarding the GPL status of
Win32::Lanman. I asked him if he would consider releasing a new version
with a less restrictive licence so that the company which I'm working
for can distribute it in their commercial software.
 
He replied to say that we could use it under the Artistic License, and
would change the licence paragraph in the next release, but there never
was another release--the latest one that I've seen was January 2003.
 
I haven't had any further contact with him.
 
Steve

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From: perl-win32-users-bounces@[...].com
[mailto:perl-win32-users-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of
Jan Dubois
Sent: 20 August 2008 20:40
To: 'Bullock, Howard A.'
Cc: perl-win32-users@[...].com
Subject: RE: Win32::Lanman and Perl 5.10



Oops, should have been more careful before replying.  Looks like Jens's
modules are all pure GPL and not "same terms as Perl". That makes me
somewhat less interested in spending time on them.

 

If you ever get a response from Jens, could you ask him if he is willing
to change the licensing terms to the same as Perl (and tell him to
contact me if he wants his code in the libwin32 project repository on
Google, which does use the same dual Artistic/GPL license that Perl
uses).

 

Cheers,

-Jan

 

From: perl-win32-users-bounces@[...].com
[mailto:perl-win32-users-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of
Jan Dubois
Sent: August 20, 2008 12:29 PM
To: 'Bullock, Howard A.'; perl-win32-users@[...].com
Subject: RE: Win32::Lanman and Perl 5.10

 

I'll import them into the libwin32 repository at googlecode and try to
make them build automatically for 5.8 and 5.10.

 

Please send me a copy of the message you sent to Jens Helberg. In case I
need to get co-maintainership on CPAN for the module I need to show that
Jens has been unresponsive for a while.

 

Cheers,

-Jan

 

From: perl-win32-users-bounces@[...].com
[mailto:perl-win32-users-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of
Bullock, Howard A.
Sent: August 20, 2008 12:13 PM
To: perl-win32-users@[...].com
Subject: Win32::Lanman and Perl 5.10

 

Microsoft has told me that the Win32-Lanman API will continue to exist
in all flavors of Windows 2008.  This being the case and to avoid a
large amount of code rewrites, shouldn't Win32::Lanman be updated to
work with Perl 5.10?

I have sent email to the author, but have not received any replies to my
queries. Would someone else pick this up so that it can continue to be
used with the latest receive of Perl?