Bug #125815 for Clone: Some tests are "Artistic only"

Wed Jul 11 09:36:36 2018 ppisar [...] redhat.com - Ticket created

Subject:

Some tests are "Artistic only"

t/dclone.t, t/tied.pl, and t/dump.pl files in Clone-0.39 distribution have this license declaration: # You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic License, # as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. README mentions only "the same terms as Perl itself" so I believe you refer to this Artistic License <https://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html>. My issue is that some distributor do not consider this Artistic license free enough, e.g. Fedora, and cannot distribute these files. Would it be possible for you to change the license for the three files to be the same as the other files as it reads in the README: This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. I.e. GPL or Artistic?

Tue Oct 23 19:15:23 2018 garu [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Hi there! Thank you for submitting this issue and for your patience. While I am the current maintainer of Clone, I was not the author of those files. I'm going to try and contact him to see if we can make a new release with the revised test files. Otherwise, I'm not sure how to proceed (do feel free to advise if you have knowledge on possible legal implications). Finally, as a suggestion, what if the current Fedora package maintainer removes those files from the Fedora Clone package? They are not required for the installation nor the use of Clone. Thank you! garu On Wed Jul 11 09:36:36 2018, ppisar wrote: Show quoted text

> t/dclone.t, t/tied.pl, and t/dump.pl files in Clone-0.39 distribution > have this license declaration: > > # You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic License, > # as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. > > README mentions only "the same terms as Perl itself" so I believe you > refer to this Artistic License > <https://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html>. > > My issue is that some distributor do not consider this Artistic > license free enough, e.g. Fedora, and cannot distribute these files. > Would it be possible for you to change the license for the three files > to be the same as the other files as it reads in the README: > > This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. > > I.e. GPL or Artistic?

Tue Oct 23 19:15:23 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Oct 25 15:58:39 2018 me [...] eboxr.com - Correspondence added

Ticket migrated to github as https://github.com/garu/Clone/issues/20

Thu Nov 01 10:34:23 2018 ppisar [...] redhat.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #125815] Some tests are "Artistic only"
Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2018 15:34:07 +0100
To:	"Breno G. de Oliveira via RT" <bug-Clone [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Petr Pisar <ppisar [...] redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 07:15:24PM -0400, Breno G. de Oliveira via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> While I am the current maintainer of Clone, I was not the author of those > files. I'm going to try and contact him to see if we can make a new release > with the revised test files.

Great to hear it. That's the best option. Show quoted text

> Otherwise, I'm not sure how to proceed (do feel > free to advise if you have knowledge on possible legal implications).

I think a mere statement by the author that he grants a permission to use the files under the new conditions would be enough. Without making a new release. It's also quite possible that the current license declaration wording was just a mistake and he actually thought the GPL or Artistic combination from the very beginning. Show quoted text

> Finally, as a suggestion, what if the current Fedora package maintainer > removes those files from the Fedora Clone package? They are not required for > the installation nor the use of Clone.

Fedora already does that. But that has the disadvantage that it also does not execute the tests. -- Petr

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