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Id: 117623
Status: resolved
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Queue: Net-Ping
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Requestors: amdmi3 [...] amdmi3.ru
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  Thu Sep 08 08:17:03 2016 amdmi3 [...] amdmi3.ru - Ticket created
Subject: No license specified
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:15:21 +0300
To: bug-Net-Ping [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 [...] amdmi3.ru>
Hi! Net::Ping does not have license specified. This is bad, as nothing apart from license allows one to use and distribute the code, and if no license is specified, it's not actually possible to legally use the module. This also affects dependent projects - for example, OCS inventory ([1]) agent cannot be packaged while it depends on Net::Ping. So please add a clearly defined license, see [2] for more info. [1] http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/ [2] http://www.perlfoundation.org/cpan_licensing_guidelines -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://amdmi3.ru
  Thu Sep 08 08:22:55 2016 RURBAN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
No. 1 . Net-Ping is upstream at perl5 (and also an advanced version in cperl), so any error should be reported there, not with the CPAN module. 2. the license is specified in the module documention. The cperl version 2.50 has this copyright notice: =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2016, cPanel Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2012, Steve Peters. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2002-2003, Rob Brown. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2001, Colin McMillen. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The perl5 version 2.43_01 has the copyright notice =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2002-2003, Rob Brown. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2001, Colin McMillen. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The cpan version 2.41 has this copyright COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2002-2003, Rob Brown. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2001, Colin McMillen. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. -- Reini Urban
  Thu Sep 08 08:22:56 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Sep 08 08:58:29 2016 amdmi3 [...] amdmi3.ru - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #117623] No license specified
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:56:46 +0300
To: Reini Urban via RT <bug-Net-Ping [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 [...] amdmi3.ru>
* Reini Urban via RT (bug-Net-Ping@rt.cpan.org) wrote: Thank you for the quick answer! Show quoted text
> 1 . Net-Ping is upstream at perl5 (and also an advanced version > in cperl), so any error should be reported there, not with the CPAN > module.
Oh, I get it. So the separate package with this module is not needed at all. Show quoted text
> 2. the license is specified in the module documention.
Still would be nice to mention it in META.* -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://amdmi3.ru
  Thu Sep 08 09:02:18 2016 reini.urban [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #117623] No license specified
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:01:59 +0200
To: bug-Net-Ping [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Reini Urban <reini.urban [...] gmail.com>
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> On Sep 8, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Dmitry Marakasov via RT <bug-Net-Ping@rt.cpan.org> wrote: > > Queue: Net-Ping > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117623 > > > * Reini Urban via RT (bug-Net-Ping@rt.cpan.org) wrote: > > Thank you for the quick answer! >
>> 1 . Net-Ping is upstream at perl5 (and also an advanced version >> in cperl), so any error should be reported there, not with the CPAN >> module.
> > Oh, I get it. So the separate package with this module is not needed > at all. >
>> 2. the license is specified in the module documention.
> > Still would be nice to mention it in META.*
True. That’s now really a bug for the CPAN version, which is outdated. The embedded version in perl5 and cperl do contain no META.yml nor a LICENSE file. But keeping this cpan version update is really p5p’s fault. I have no permission to upload the latest. Reini Urban rurban@cpan.org
  Wed Mar 07 06:55:28 2018 RURBAN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
The META definition contains now the license, if supported by EUMM.
  Wed Mar 07 06:55:29 2018 RURBAN [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'