Perhaps it's time for a policy decision from the CPAN deities as to whether namespace ownership ship is purely a social convention or if it can be enforced by booting trespassers.
-J -- On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:33:23AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Ernesto Hern?ndez-Novich wrote: > > >Several months ago I started packaging DateTime::Cron::Simple for Debian > >GNU/Linux as part of the process of packaging dependencies for a large > >perl-based CMS. At the time, I noted that DateTime::Cron::Simple does not > >have > >a license and contacted the author in order to fix that. > > > >As it stands today, > > > >http://search.cpan.org/~bits/DateTime-Cron-Simple-0.2/Simple.pm > > > >the module still has no license at all making it unusable for all practical > >purposes. In fact, it shouldn't even be on CPAN. How can this be fixed? > > No idea. THat module is not part of the DateTime project. The author is > just using the same namespace. When I contacted him about this he > basically told me to f*ck off. > > > -dave > > /*=================================================== > VegGuide.Org www.BookIRead.com > Your guide to all that's veg. My book blog > ===================================================*/
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