Hi, Well, it seems to be the pedantic season here. I got the following reply from James Troup when trying to get libxml-filter-sax1tosax2-perl in Debian.
He has some points, but I've got a feeling that a lot more Perl modules in Debian has the same issue. It's a common practice for modules to have something like This is free software, you may use and distribute this module under the same terms as Perl itself. and sofar this has not been a problem. What to do? Do we got back to all our upstream authors and ask them to clarify their license? Or... Thanks, Ardo James Troup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to be pedantic but the only external files you're meant to > reference in the copyright file are the common licenses in base-files. > And saying it's "under the same license as Perl itself" is unhelpful; > which version of Perl? What if Perl changes licenses? etc. I realise > this may be an upstream thing; if so please ask them to clarify it to > specify GPL/Artistic explicitly so you can do the same in the > copyright file. > > -- > James -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://people.debian.org/~ardo GnuPG fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
