Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:47:11 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
* contacted the author of disc-cover (Audio::CD 0.05 is downloaded
from the disc-cover homepage) and asked him for help
And I already got a helpful reply, sorting out the details now.
Update: we will get an e-mail with clarified licensing terms for
inclusion in debian/copyright.
Cheers,
gregor
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Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license
Damyan Ivanov dijo [Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:56:23PM +0300]: I've done two things now: * contacted the author of disc-cover (Audio::CD 0.05 is downloaded from the disc-cover homepage) and asked him for help * installed 0.04 on my machine and tested yaret and disc-cover -- both seem to work, so we could upload a 1:0.04-1 package (if the Hm. I have a strange feeling of inreversibility about epochs :) Can it be 0.05+really0.04 instead? Only if you consider this less ugly than an epoch :) Umh... That would only do if the disc-cover version of Audio::CD is not enhanced somehow since 0.04, just copied over. If it has any additional functionality (and specially as Gregor says he has some yet-undisclosed helpful reply in this front ;-) ), I'd vote against 0.05+really0.04pluspatches or something like that! author's statement in a private mail is good enough for us) I guess it is. The mail would have to be quoted (Recieved headers included) in debian/copyright. Extra points if it is a GPG-signed mail. But OTOH, nothing in his distribution so far has been GPG-signed. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:56:44 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: I've done two things now: * contacted the author of disc-cover (Audio::CD 0.05 is downloaded from the disc-cover homepage) and asked him for help And I already got a helpful reply, sorting out the details now. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `-NP: Sting: Fragile signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:20:00 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: And now I'm going to try to contact the upstream author. Doug has responded via private mail. Summary: * 0.04 was his last release and he doesn't maintain the module anymore * it should have been licensed under the same terms as Perl itself * he is not familiar with the 0.05 version I've done two things now: * contacted the author of disc-cover (Audio::CD 0.05 is downloaded from the disc-cover homepage) and asked him for help * installed 0.04 on my machine and tested yaret and disc-cover -- both seem to work, so we could upload a 1:0.04-1 package (if the author's statement in a private mail is good enough for us) Cheers, gregor, cc'ing the yaret and disc-cover maintainers to make them aware of the situation -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `-NP: Rolling Stones: Family signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license
-=| gregor herrmann, Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:56:44PM +0200 |=- On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:20:00 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: And now I'm going to try to contact the upstream author. Doug has responded via private mail. Summary: * 0.04 was his last release and he doesn't maintain the module anymore * it should have been licensed under the same terms as Perl itself * he is not familiar with the 0.05 version Sounds like a good news I've done two things now: * contacted the author of disc-cover (Audio::CD 0.05 is downloaded from the disc-cover homepage) and asked him for help * installed 0.04 on my machine and tested yaret and disc-cover -- both seem to work, so we could upload a 1:0.04-1 package (if the Hm. I have a strange feeling of inreversibility about epochs :) Can it be 0.05+really0.04 instead? Only if you consider this less ugly than an epoch :) author's statement in a private mail is good enough for us) I guess it is. The mail would have to be quoted (Recieved headers included) in debian/copyright. -- damJabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license
Package: libaudio-cd-perl
Version: 0.05-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1
Ansgar Burchardt has discovered that audio-cd contains a problematic
license in the 0.05 release. README and CD.{xs,pm} say:
Copyright (C) 1999-2002 by Doug MacEachern
When included as part of the Standard Version of Perl or as
part of its complete documentation whether printed or
otherwise, this work may be distributed only under the terms
of Perl's Artistic License as included in the file COPYING.
Any distribution of this file or derivatives thereof outside
of that package requires that special arrangements be made
with copyright holder.
The second sentence limits distribution of derived works, and it is
probably problematic for the distribution of the module itself.
Cf. also the thread starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2008/09/msg6.html
I file this bug against version 0.05-3 (sarge), probably 0.05-2 (the
first version in Debian) has the same conditions.
And now I'm going to try to contact the upstream author.
Cheers,
gregor
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