>>>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Kent Fredric wrote: > I've just discovered dev-perl/Ace has some fun questionable licensing > which includes a lovely indemnity clause, which had previously gone > unnoticed, and it stipulates additional requests for research > publications, which is not something mentioned in any license currently > in tree other than Tinker
> Following is the entire body of the license I plan to put in > licenses/AcePerl-Indemnity ( name chosen to specifically alert people > tempted to accept this license that Indemnification is an important > part they should actually read ) > Current advice also says that due to the terms of this license, we have > to RESTRICT="mirror" this as well, unless the Trustees want to sign off > on potentially indemnifying CSHL > Also following up with CPAN because as its *currently* mirrored on > CPAN, and has been mirrored there for at *least* 12 years, its > potentially in a legal situation as well. > ( But that's the fault of the uploader if true, because you can't > upload anything to CPAN without mirroring being something you didn't > expect ) > Once this license is added, the plan is to rework Ace-*.ebuild to be under > LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1+ ) AcePerl-Indemnity" > Upstream: https://metacpan.org/source/LDS/AcePerl-1.92/DISCLAIMER.txt The important words are: "This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself." which makes it simply LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1+ )", and of course, no mirror restriction is needed. The rest is simply an additional warranty disclaimer. I wouldn't even see it as part of the license, because it is about usage of the software, not about its distribution. As always: IANAL, TINLA. Ulrich
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