Bug #130340 for FLTK: Need license/distribution terms for FLTK module

Tue Aug 20 00:08:58 2019 brett.t.warden [...] intel.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Need license/distribution terms for FLTK module
Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:23:57 +0000
To:	"bug-FLTK [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-FLTK [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"Warden, Brett T" <brett.t.warden [...] intel.com>

I didn't find a license specified anywhere for the FLTK module. I'd like to package and distribute it with Clear Linux, however, I need to demonstrate that we have permission from the copyright holder to do so. -- Brett T. Warden Clear Linux Ops and Integration Intel Corporation

Tue Aug 20 07:09:00 2019 sanko [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Don't bother. The underlying FLTK 2.0 library is dead. When I inherited the project, it was based on the 2.0 branch which was abandoned upstream in 2011. They refuse to even distribute snapshots of the source which is why Alien::FLTK doesn't build and my work (which was properly licensed) is only found on backpan now. I planned to move to 1.3.x (which was created after 2.0) with https://metacpan.org/release/Fl but it was also dropped upstream, then up to 3.0 in 2011-2012 which was also later dropped upstream, then 1.4 in 2016 which is still incomplete. That's confusing, I know... Here's a commit timeline for the different branches: http://www.fltk.org/svn_monthly_commit_activity.svg Every branch created and later abandoned is incompatible with the other branches because they redesign the entire API every single time. See also: http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L825 http://www.fltk.org/software.php

Tue Aug 20 07:09:01 2019 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Aug 20 07:09:01 2019 sanko [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Tue Aug 20 07:09:02 2019 sanko [...] cpan.org - Taken