<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">David:<div><br></div><div>We need to be very careful about including any GPL-licensed code in Swift, as that will make all Swift code GPL. Steve Tuecke can provide more specifics.</div><div><br></div><div>Ian.</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:35 AM, David Kelly wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br><br>My swiftconfig and swiftrun utilities use a module called XML::Simple. It is not included in most standard perl distributions. I would like to include it so users do not have to manually install modules. Perl modules are licensed by the same terms as perl itself - which is the GNU General Public License version 1 (or later at your discretion), or the "artistic license" (<a href="http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html">http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html</a>). My understanding is that all Globus projects are required to be under an Apache license.<br>
<br>I would like to add swiftconfig, swiftrun and associated libraries to the main swift distribution. Can I safely do this without running into any licensing conflicts?<br><br>Thanks,<br>David<br><br><a href="http://dev.perl.org/licenses/gpl1.html"></a>
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