Bug #133047 for Date-Pcalc: Very minor ambiguity in licensing

Sat Jul 25 04:15:36 2020 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Very minor ambiguity in licensing

Multiple files say:

./lib/Date/Pcalc/Object.pod-1323-This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
./lib/Date/Pcalc/Object.pod:1324:modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the
./lib/Date/Pcalc/Object.pod:1325:terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License".

And this adds some confusion, as it suggests "Artistic-1 OR GPL-1", while the perl license stipulates that GPL-1, or any newer version is acceptable.

More over, some parts of this dist are LGPL licensed, and this is not made very clear at the top level, other than the hint from the included copy of GNU_LGPL.txt

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Sat Jul 25 06:27:57 2020 ostbey [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #133047] Very minor ambiguity in licensing
Date:	Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:27:36 +0200
To:	bug-Date-Pcalc [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"O. STeffen BEYer" <ostbey [...] gmail.com>

In fact this means that you can license it under the same licenses as Perl, whatever version numbers of the Artistic License or the GPL Perl is licensed under. And for whichever version of Perl you prefer. At your option you may also (additionally), or alternatively, license the library under the LGPL (any version as far as I care), which allows linking it with proprietary software, which means that it does not require that the software it is linked to also to be open source. Does that make sense? Best regards, Steffen Beyer -- Sent from my mobile phone. See fluorescent marine life: https://y2u.be/4V9TCdCbX6U http://www.fluomedia.org/ On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, 10:15 Kent Fredric via RT, <bug-Date-Pcalc@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Sat Jul 25 04:15:36 2020: Request 133047 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by KENTNL > Queue: Date-Pcalc > Subject: Very minor ambiguity in licensing > 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=133047 > > > > Multiple files say: > > ./lib/Date/Pcalc/Object.pod-1323-This package is free software; you can > redistribute it and/or > ./lib/Date/Pcalc/Object.pod:1324:modify it under the same terms as Perl > itself, > i.e., under the > ./lib/Date/Pcalc/Object.pod:1325:terms of the "Artistic License" or the > "GNU > General Public License". > > And this adds some confusion, as it suggests "Artistic-1 OR GPL-1", while > the > perl license stipulates that GPL-1, or any newer version is acceptable. > > More over, some parts of this dist are LGPL licensed, and this is not made > very > clear at the top level, other than the hint from the included copy of > GNU_LGPL.txt > > -- > - CPAN kentnl@cpan.org > - Gentoo Perl Maintainer kentnl@gentoo.org ( perl@gentoo.org ) > >

Sat Jul 25 06:27:58 2020 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Jul 25 07:21:47 2020 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2020-07-25 22:27:57, ostbey@gmail.com wrote:
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> In fact this means that you can license it under the same licenses as Perl,
> whatever version numbers of the Artistic License or the GPL Perl is
> licensed under. And for whichever version of Perl you prefer.
>
> At your option you may also (additionally), or alternatively, license the
> library under the LGPL (any version as far as I care), which allows linking
> it with proprietary software, which means that it does not require that the
> software it is linked to also to be open source.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Best regards,
> Steffen Beyer

Sure, just as-is, the way its written doesn't convey any of these, as it uses "i.e.", which means "that is", perhaps you meant "e.g." (for example).

So as written, it says "under the same terms as perl, which are <Artistic or GPL>".

Though I feel it would be better written to just elide the "ie: ... " part.

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