perl modules licenses

[Bartek Jakubski]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Radoslaw Zielinski wrote:
> Bartek Jakubski <migo at supernet.com.pl> [26-08-2003 12:18]:
>> Does "same terms as Perl itself" means
>> 1. "GPL/Artistic"
>> 2. "Artistic or GPL"
>> 3. "GPL v1+ or Artistic"
>> 4. "GPL v2+ or Artistic"
>> ?
> 
> Perl is copyrighted as "GPL v1+ or Artistic".  About a year ago,
> "GPL/Artistic" was commonly used in the License fields to mean "same
> terms as Perl".
> 
> Now, if a module is distributed under such terms, I put "GPL/Artistic"
> in the License and a comment "# same as perl" above, to make it easily
> distinguishable.
> 
> Maybe we should put "same as perl" or something like this in the
> License fields?

Just after sending this message I thought about the same. "Same as Perl
itself".

> It sucks...

Only if you are Debian developer/user :-)

> PS  Debian's FTP admins drop such packages.

I've just read about their issues. Fortunately we have no reasons to do
the same - they have to care a lot more about licenses than we do.


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