On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:19:07 +0100, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Dolan wrote: > > In the last year as a Fink maintainer (Mac OS X debian-like package > > manager), I've come across a couple CPAN modules that have no license > > information at all. It's very frustrating. I've submitted RT bugs, > > but one of them has been fixed (thanks Ken Williams). > > > > To encourage authors to correct this oversight, I propose a new pair of > > Kwalitee tests. Both would be nice, but if either of them were > > implemented, I'd be thrilled. I'd prefer that someone else implement > > the test (lack of tuits), but if there is approval for the idea without > > a motivated implementer I will take a hack at it. > > > > 1) has_license -- check for the presence of a file named something > > like LICENSE or COPYING or COPYLEFT or GPL or ... (each test case > > insensitive, with or without .txt extensions). Alternatively, the test > > can be more liberal by looking for the string "copyright" in README, > > *pm and *.pod. > > > > 2) has_meta_yml_license -- check for a META.yml field named > > "license". Module::Build supports this. > > That would suck, you may as well propose a Kwalitee bit for modules that > use Module::Build. You surely mean *not* using Module::Build using M::B inflicts a huge compatibility problem on using the module on older perls Now for my real opinion, I think a module shall not be judged/qualiteed on the used build system. > I know that the current alpha of ExtUtils::MakeMaker supports this, but > until it is released as stable *and* module authors have the time to > upgrade EU::MM *and* release a new version of their module(s), those > authors will be penalised through no fault of their own. > > David > > > These tests should not care which license is claimed, just that there > > is a license present. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-qa@perl.org
