Bug #132515 for CDDB_get: License ambiguity

> Wed May 06 12:34:28 2020: Request 132515 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by KENTNL > Queue: CDDB_get > Subject: License ambiguity > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: KENTNL@cpan.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132515 > > > > ./CDDB_get.pm-7-# > ./CDDB_get.pm-8-# (c) 2004 Armin Obersteiner <armin@xos.net> > ./CDDB_get.pm-9-# > ./CDDB_get.pm:10:# LICENSE > ./CDDB_get.pm-11-# > ./CDDB_get.pm:12:# This library is released under the same conditions as Perl, > that > ./CDDB_get.pm-13-# is, either of the following: > ./CDDB_get.pm-14-# > ./CDDB_get.pm:15:# a) the GNU General Public License Version 2 as published by > the > ./CDDB_get.pm-16-# Free Software Foundation, > ./CDDB_get.pm-17-# > ./CDDB_get.pm:18:# b) the Artistic License. > ./CDDB_get.pm-19-# > > This pattern of "Artistic or GPL-2" is all over this distribution, but each > time, it indicates that this is a transcription of "perl"'s license. > > However, perl's license is "Artistic or GPL-1+" > > https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.30.2/README#L83-94 > > LICENSING========= This program is free software; you can redistribute it > and/or modifyit under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as > published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your > option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this > Kit. > So the actual license for this package is unclear ( for instance, can it be > used under the terms of GPL-1 or GPL-3, which Perl can be? ) > > > > > -- > - CPAN kentnl@cpan.org > - Gentoo Perl Maintainer kentnl@gentoo.org ( perl@gentoo.org )