On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Chris Dolan wrote:
For a while Path-Class, Archive-Any and even Encode all lacked
license statements. Happily these are now fixed, but if a policy
like what you propose had been in place they would have not been
allowed in CPAN, much to everyone's loss.
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9203
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14896
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19056
Well, to be fair, if PAUSE had informed me when I first uploaded Path-
Class that it had no license, I would have fixed it quicker. =)
-Ken