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Id: 131518
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Queue: File-BackupCopy
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Requestors: justincase [...] yopmail.com
Cc: DBOOK [...] cpan.org
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  Mon Jan 20 03:37:01 2020 justincase [...] yopmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: violation of open source license
File::Backup has a GPL-3 license. You copied the distribution, changed some names, removed the Changelog and gave no credit to the original authors, thus violating the original license.
  Mon Jan 20 12:44:31 2020 DBOOK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Jan 20 03:37:01 2020, justincase wrote: Show quoted text
> File::Backup has a GPL-3 license. You copied the distribution, changed > some names, removed the Changelog and gave no credit to the original > authors, thus violating the original license.
This does not seem accurate. File::Backup, though it has been removed from CPAN other than this tombstone release[1] does not bear any similarity to File::BackupCopy in code or documentation in its previous release[2], no longer available on CPAN. It is similar to an unauthorized release of File::Backup[3] by this author, who has since renamed it to File::BackupCopy, presumably because the File::Backup name is already claimed. I do not see anything that needs action here. [1] https://metacpan.org/release/GENE/File-Backup-0.07_1 [2] https://metacpan.org/release/GENE/File-Backup-0.07 [3] https://metacpan.org/release/SGRAY/File-Backup-1.00 -Dan
  Mon Jan 20 12:44:32 2020 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Jan 20 12:51:01 2020 DBOOK [...] cpan.org - Cc DBOOK added
  Mon Jan 20 16:41:01 2020 SGRAY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Pon 20 Sty 2020, 03:37:01, justincase wrote: Show quoted text
> File::Backup has a GPL-3 license. You copied the distribution, changed > some names, removed the Changelog and gave no credit to the original > authors, thus violating the original license.
That it not true. The module is entirely my work. To begin with, when writing the module I was not aware that something of that name had already existed, let alone ever seen its source code. For what it's worth you can compare both sources and see that they constitute two independent works. I checked cpan.org for the name File::Backup (which seemed quite appropriate), found nothing and decided I can take the name. When I received the message from the indexer that this name is owned by GENE, I removed the package, sent a letter to Gene asking him for information about the module and renamed my work to File::BackupCopy to avoid the clash. That's the history.
  Mon Jan 20 16:57:07 2020 DBOOK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Jan 20 16:41:01 2020, SGRAY wrote: Show quoted text
> On Pon 20 Sty 2020, 03:37:01, justincase wrote:
> > File::Backup has a GPL-3 license. You copied the distribution, > > changed > > some names, removed the Changelog and gave no credit to the original > > authors, thus violating the original license.
> > That it not true. The module is entirely my work. To begin with, > when writing the module I was not aware that something of that name > had already existed, let alone ever seen its source code. For what > it's worth you can compare both sources and see that they constitute > two independent works. I checked cpan.org for the name File::Backup > (which seemed quite appropriate), found nothing and decided I can take > the name. When I received the message from the indexer that this name > is owned by GENE, I removed the package, sent a letter to Gene asking > him for information about the module and renamed my work to > File::BackupCopy to avoid the clash. That's the history.
You can use https://cpanmeta.grinnz.com/perms to check namespace permissions, if it helps. (I usually do both a packages index and permissions index search for potential new module names.) -Dan
  Fri Jan 24 00:54:23 2020 SGRAY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Pon 20 Sty 2020, 16:57:07, DBOOK wrote: Show quoted text
> You can use https://cpanmeta.grinnz.com/perms to check namespace > permissions, if it helps. (I usually do both a packages index and > permissions index search for potential new module names.)
Thanks a lot, Dan. I'll certainly do next time.
  Fri Jan 24 00:54:24 2020 SGRAY [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'